Many believed that the movement began with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and ended with the Voting Rights act of 1965. ... Most of these practices came to an end with the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. ... He described the "hate stare" given to blacks, and the expected behaviors of blacks such as men not looking at whites, and addressing everyone with a title, regardless of their age. ... It also gave the executive branch the power to enforce the act's provisions. ... After the passage of the Voting Rights act of 1965 , the Civil Rights Movements began to move away f...

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• Grade Level: High School

Even though the Civil Rights Act had been passed and the African Americans had the right to register, they were still being denied that. ... The men holding the fire hose were a poor representation of American citizens, I don't even think they should have the honor of holding that title, since it seems they really didn't understand what it meant to be a citizen of this great nation, or understand the laws set forth by it.                         ...

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Even though the Civil Rights Act had been passed and the African Americans had the right to register, they were still being denied that. ... The men holding the fire hose were a poor representation of American citizens, I don't even think they should have the honor of holding that title, since it seems they really didn't understand what it meant to be a citizen of this great nation, or understand the laws set forth by it.                         ...

• Word Count: 444
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• Grade Level: High School

In 1952, the Supreme Court grouped Brown's case together with similar cases from other states such as Delaware, District of Columbia, South Carolina and Virginia under the title Oliver Brown et al vs. the Board of Education of Topeka. ... Expecting resistance from many, especially the southern states, the Supreme Court acted very cautiously and did not demand immediate desegregation. ... In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson issued the Civil Rights Act. This act forbade any form of racism in education, transportation and public facilities. After this act was issued, about 6% of southern blac...

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In the article "Civil Rights Act if 1964" by Everett Dirksen states that long after slavery was abolished blacks still did not have the same rights as whites. ... With such great strides met enforcing the "Civil Rights Act of 1964," we were still faced with issues in discrimination in the work place. Due to these issues in the article "Color by Numbers" by Fred Swartz it states the EEOC as "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission" (para.3) was created to enforce "Title VII of that statute banned racial discrimination. ...

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When the Marching Stopped: The Politics of Civil Rights Regulatory Agencies State University of New York Press State University Plaza Albany, New York 1988 The theme of the book is the evaluation of civil rights regulatory agencies created under Titles VI and VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act during the Reagan administration. I thank the author chose the title because the agencies were created following the civil rights movement. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Under the Johnson administration, the US Government enacted the Civil Rights Act of 1064. ... The key was that the act governed all employers, not just government contractors like the Kennedy EO. The Civil Rights Act established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). ... From 1978 until the present, there have been many Supreme Court rulings, Executive orders and other AA legislation in-acted. ... The 1998 Gallup/Newsweek poll showed that between 1987 and 1997, the proportion of women holding the title of executive vice president rose from 7 to 12 percent. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Douglass acted as an interpreter for the entire black community and necessitated black civil rights through his newspaper. ... Douglass held many prestigious titles in government and business, his social status helped break the barrier for other blacks to enter into the government and gain similar positions. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

There was one in particular that rose above all the rest, and the title of chapter six of Mr. ... In the area of Louisville the Beecher Terrace was one of the public housing projects that sprung up under Roosevelt's New Deal policy, combined with the passing of the Kentucky Fair Housing Act passes in the same year. ...

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She calls Scout ma'am and Jem sir, although these are titles usually reserved for elders. ... Aunt Alexandra displayed an act of discrimination against her own race when she forbade Scout to have Walter Cunningham over for lunch. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Although the official title was gone, the whites had managed to reassert their status as "masters" to the Southern Blacks through scare tactics and "economic policies". ... The Supreme Court supported the Southerners" push for black social subordination, when in 1883 the Civil Rights Act of 1875 was nullified. ...

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Jean Toomer's Cane was published in 1923, a miscellany composed of fifteen poems, seven stories, six prose vignettes and a play that all focus on Negro life during the 1920's. The book was focused on the primitive modern sense of what it meant to be an African-American during the Harlem Renaissance....

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People do not slow down to find out more information; they act quickly upon the situation, which leads them to ignorant actions. ... The only thing he cared about was the title of being able to call his son a lieutenant. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Titles IV and VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 authorized the government to become involved to insure that school districts complied with desegregation policies by providing for assistance in helping schools comply, authorizing the attorney general to sue to obtain compliance and allowing for a cut-off of federal funds to any school guilty of racial discrimination. ...

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