Civil Rights Act Of 1964

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 awarded to millions of Americans freedoms that protect residents of the United States from unwarranted government action. Civil rights help to ensure people's safety, physical integrity, protection from private discrimination (non-government) based on sex, age, religion, and race. Civil rights also ensure Americans that they receive equal access to health care, education, culture and much more. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a declaration that was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in the year 1948. The Declaration came into being as a direct result of World War II. In the United States, citizens have greater protection when it comes to civil rights than non-citizens have, because of their citizenship within the country. The most important civil rights document ever to come into being in the United States was the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation all across the country in places such as schools, workplaces, and public places.

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  • The legal, longer title for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 reads: "An Act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to provide relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes."
  • Civil rights are protected in the workplace by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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