Civil Rights Act of 1964

Cultural  

1. A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. The law was passed during a period of great strength for the civil rights movement, and President Lyndon Johnson persuaded many reluctant members of Congress to support the law.

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Example Sentences

Although the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ended segregation and granted voting rights to people of all races — signed by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Southern Democrat who broke away from the party’s history to spearhead progressive domestic policy — the decades that followed were ridden with manipulations of the electoral system.

From Los Angeles Times

His advocacy work also paved the way for the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

From Barron's

Justice Antonin Scalia’s concurrence observed that the ruling “merely postpones the evil day on which the Court will have to confront the question: Whether, or to what extent, are the disparate-impact provisions of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 consistent with the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection?”

From The Wall Street Journal

He protested alongside Martin Luther King Jr., helped organize and finance the 1963 March on Washington, and was instrumental in gathering support for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the Fair Housing Act, and Medicare and Medicaid.

From The Wall Street Journal

Written in 1957, seven years before the groundbreaking Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lee's own approach to the civil rights movement appears to be evolving.

From BBC