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Even to today, this is still happening, a superior race, we try to say that everyone is equal but no African Americans would believe this, but this is all starting to change now that the US have a African American president. Reconstruction In the Southern states, many African Americans demanded equality in 1865 - they felt they were unequal in economic, social, political and legal aspects. Durings 1865 Reconstruction Confederate style was
Research Paper Civil Rights Act: 1964 When thinking of an important bill the government has passed, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 will definitely stand out. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a bill that stated all segregation was to be banned and for there to be equal rights for all people of different genders, religion, and race. However, this did not end segregation immediately. The Supreme Court had “declared that the segregated public schools were in fact unconstitutional in 1964, but even a decade later, most public schools had remained segregated” ("Documenting Brown 7: Civil Rights Act of 1964" PBS LearningMedia). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an important act because it ended segregation and gave equal rights to all citizens of the United States.
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On June 19, 1963, President John F. Kennedy sent comprehensive civil rights legislation to Congress, asking it to “make a commitment it has not fully made in this century to the proposition that race has no place in American life or law (Cornell, 2014).” However, there was stiff political and social opposition to the legislation (Cornell, 2014). Following President Kennedy's assassination in November, 1963, President Johnson continued to support the legislation, saying that “no eulogy could more eloquently honor Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long (Cornell, 2014).” Finally, and after much compromise, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2, 1964 (Cornell, 2014). Today, the EEOC conducts enforcement litigation under several federal statutes that prohibit job discrimination (Cornell, 2014). The federal statutes prohibiting discrimination in employment are: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII), which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; the Equal Pay Act of 1963 (EPA), which protects men and women who perform substantially equal work in the same establishment from sex-based wage discrimination; the Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
The Constitution, until recently, did not apply to blacks; blacks feel they deserve payments from 310 years of slavery, destruction to their minds and culture. Dr. Martin Luther King's dilemma in the United States was of a different kind. He was torn between his identity as a Black man of African descent and his identity as an American. He urged Americans to judge based on the content of the character not by skin color and also believed in non-violent protests. Martin Luther King Jr’s main perspective during the fight on racism was equality.
Such as making it illegal to segregate in the public eye, the right to vote, and educational rights. This had been the goal of the African Americans since slavery was imposed. The Civil Rights Act also did other things as in banning discriminations. There were many questions asked, but there was one specific question that became apparent when The Civil Rights Act
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AFFIRMITIVE ACTION vs. DIVERSITY There has been much said about Affirmative Action and Diversity. It is said that Affirmative Action has failed to “improve education and workplace discrimination” throughout the United States. Diversity in the workplace has its issues also, like communication, opposition to change, implementing and managing which are still issues with some organizations. I will begin by describing how Affirmative Action came about. Back in 1961 Affirmative Action was introduced by the late President John F. Kennedy as a tactic to make up for the discrimination that continued in spite of having the Civil Rights Laws along with the Constitution that guaranteed fairness and equality.