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. In 1963, The Civil Rights bill was brought before Congress. Kennedy pointed out an important fact to show his support for the act. “In a speech on television on June 11th, Kennedy pointed out: ‘The Negro baby born in America today has about one-half as much chance of completing high school as a white baby born in the same place on the same day. They would have one third as much chance of completing college, one third as much chance of becoming a professional man, twice as much chance of becoming unemployed, and about one-seventh as much chance of earning $10,000 a year.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972 The Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972: extended the authority of Title VII to include local, state and federal employment agencies, which provided protection for an additional 10 million citizens. The act reduced the minimum number of employees from 25 to 15 that an employer can maintain without being subject to Title VII. The legislation also provided equal rights protection in educational institutions (Tanner, K., 1999-2015). In other words, the (EEOA) prohibits any form of employment discrimination based on religion, age, race, sex, color, national origin, political beliefs, marital or family status, and disabilities. The (EEOA) ensures that all American workers have an equal opportunity for employment regardless of gender, race, or any other discriminating factors.
Reagan's track record proved to be very strong and included welfare cuts, decreasing the number of state employees, and halting radical student protesters. Like other GOP members, Reagan came into office promising to limit the power of government and to strengthen American military power overseas. "In this present crisis," Reagan said in his inaugural address, "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."(Reaganomics). On March 30, 1981, only a few short months after being sworn in, President Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel from giving a speech to a group of trade unionists at the National Conference of Building and Construction Trades Department, when he was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. Six shots were fired from a .22-caliber revolver, one hitting the President in the torso, just under his left arm. President Reagan was very lucky that the bullet didn’t explode and it missed his heart.
The legislation made it unlawful for an employer to refuse to hire or discharge any person due to his race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Title VII of the act created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to implement the law. Today, I feel as though people still discriminate on both sides of employment opportunities. Many women are paid less than men who do the same exact work. Even though there is a law preventing this, it still happens.
She writes about how the government told the public nuclear testing was not dangerous and was needed to beat the enemy, and writes about the important law suit “Irene Allen vs the United States of America” which started educating the people and even the government about the harmful effects of nuclear testing near and around the public. Finally on May 10, 1984 the United States awarded plaintiffs for the damages. According to Williams, “it was the first time a federal court had determined that nuclear tests had been the cause of cancers.” However, the next year the Court of Appeals overturned the ruling based on a century-old idea from Monarchial England which meant that the United States was protected from suit by the legal
The Fourteenth Amendment stating that no state could abridge the privileges and immunities of U.S. citizens included the word “male”, so together they explicitly protected only men’s rights. (About.com. n.d.) Women had their rights protected by the Nineteenth Amendment, which was passed in 1919, only when it came to voting. Women were struggling for decades to acquire the same rights as men under the Fourteenth Amendment. The Equal Rights Amendment, (ERA), finally passed through the Senate and the House of Representatives in1972, long after it was initially proposed in 1923.
The fifteenth amendment (1870) of the U.S. Constitution states in section 1: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude”. However, many black Americans had their right to vote abridged and denied through poll taxes and frivolous literacy tests at their respective polling facilities. Voting rights for black Americans weren’t fully realized until ninety-five years later with the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1965. Miss Black and Gold of Xi Epsilon appreciates the history of our national program and seeks to involve herself with registering as many people as she can for the upcoming U.S. congressional races of 2014. She feels the rising issue of restrictive voting I.D.
Zachary Fike Dr. Josye Brookter English 101 25 March 2013 Prison Overcrowding: A Human Rights Violation and Ways to Stop It The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution reads, “Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.” These violations go on every day in the walls of our nation’s correctional institutions. In the Supreme Court case Brown v. Plata the court held that California's prison system violated inmates' Eighth Amendment rights. The Court upheld a three-judge panel's order to decrease the population of California's prisons by 40,000 inmates. They determined that overcrowding was the primary cause of the inmates' inadequate medical and mental health care (Riess, 2011). People should not be treated like animals for past transgressions.
Everything in life has a foundation that it was built upon, and the EEOC was created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. So what is the Civil Rights Act of 1964? The employment section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, known as Title VII, prohibits discrimination based on race, color, national origin, sex, and religion, and also prohibits employers from retaliating against any employee who exercises his or her rights under Title VII (Cornell, 2014). The Civil Rights movement of the early 1960s peaked in the spring and summer of 1963. 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).
The Civil Right Acts of 1964 and the Voting Right Acts are but two pieces of legislation which made sure that these Amendments were not being violated. Former president Lyndon Johnson enacted this two Acts on his first year of administration in the White House from 1964-1965. The first Federal Act that took place was the Civil Right Act of 1964 which prohibited United States citizens’ acts of segregation and discrimination towards African Americans in public places where all legal US citizens spend their leisure time outside the home. This federal act dismantle the Jim Crows racial segregation law, where it “sought