The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was considered an important victory for the civil rights movement because it mean?
A)homeowners had to sell or rent to families that did not have enough money to pay for housing B)homeowners could not refuse to sell or rent property to families with children C)homeowners could receive federal money for their property D)homeowners had to now sell or rent their property more quickly
Did the Civil Rights movement win equal rights for all Americans? What is your opinion?
The Civil Rights movement brought about significant legislation that prevented legal discrimination (Jim Crow laws) in every region of the country. The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provided “equal protection under the law” and the 15th Amendment guaranteed “voting rights for all”. These Amendments (along with the 13th Amendment) were enacted immediately after the Civil War and are sometimes referred to as The Reconstruction Amendments.Apparently some state and municipal governments didn’t get the memo regarding these amendments. SCOTUS didn’t help matters by its 1896 ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson that “separate but equal” was indeed legal.So from 1896 until 1954 with Brown v. Board of Education segregation and denial of constitutional rights was legal. The Brown decision is considered the start of the so-called Civil Rights Era.History documents that from that time (1954) until The Civil Rights Act of 1964, some states and municipal governments were loath to accept the concept of equal rights under the law. In fact, even after the passage of that law in 1964, there was considerable resistance to its enforcement. Further federal legislation was enacted with The Civil Rights Act of 1965 (Voting Rights) and The Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair & Open Housing). All of these laws stated that, “race, color, creed (religion) and national origin” could not be used as discriminatory factors (additional factors such as gender, age and sexual orientation have been added over the years).So to answer the question more specifically, the Civil Rights Movement did win equal rights for everyone under the law. This is known as de jure rights. However, there is another more insidious condition that is known as de facto discrimination. De facto means a state of affairs that is true in fact, but that is not officially sanctioned. It is the basis of much Institutional Discrimination, that takes place with practices such as redlining and police profiling.The bottom line is this; we have much more work to do to create a free, equal and non-discriminatory society.
How was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 considered a success? In what ways did it fail?
The Civil Rights Act was a resounding success in that it was the capstone of a decades' long effort to remove and repeal the Jim Crow laws prevalent throughout the American South since shortly after the Civil War. Removing the efforts to disenfranchise African Americans re-ordered the political landscape of the nation moving forward. The failure of the Civil Rights Act is one of context. The great political alliance of the New Deal, whereby poor and middle class whites joined with big city progressives, was broken. Prophetically, Lyndon B Johnson remarked when he signed the bill that the Democrats had lost the South for a generation -- sixty years on, many states in the South remain firmly in the grip of the GOP and firmly opposed to policies similar in focus to the Civil Rights Act. Because the Civil Rights Act alienated so much of the nation, additional action and needed nation-wide legislation became impossible to achieve at the Federal level.
Why was the Civil War considered a turning point in American history?
Other than abolishing slavery, it brought united the states together, therefore not the north and south anymore but The United States of America. Of course it wasn't a change that happened overnight. Even though slavery ended, anyone who wasn't white was still treated differently, up until the civil rights movement. Did you not listen in class? Unless you are an elementary student asking this question then you ought to be ashamed for not knowing this stuff.
Civil Rights Movement in 1960s?
While the civil rights movement for African-Americans dominated the 1960s, many other groups of Americans also sought equality. What techniques did the various groups use to protest current problems and bring about change? What tactics from the civil rights and war protest movement did other groups use? How did these groups approach change through the government (the courts, Congress and the president)? How effective were their techniques? How is our society different today because of these efforts?
What party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950s and the 1960s?
Of course the Republican Party played a significant role in the enactment of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. A larger proportion of the Republican caucus voted for the bill compared to the Democratic caucus in the Senate.BUT....In 1964, the Democratic Presidential nominee, Lyndon Johnson, had already signed that year's Civil Rights Act. The Republican nominee that year, Sen. Barry Goldwater was one of the few members of the GOP in the Senate to vote against it. Selected Articles Years later, Ronald Reagan would expression opposition to the Voting Rights Act. Ronald Reagan on Civil RightsIn 1987, Democratic Senators, joined by some Republican Senators voted to defeat Ronald Reagan's nominee for the US Supreme Court, Robert Bork. Robert Bork had argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was unconstitutional. Robert Bork's Supreme Court Nomination 'Changed Everything, Maybe Forever'In between Presidents Johnson and Reagan you had Richard Nixon. Richard Nixon employed what has been called "the Southern Strategy" to attract the votes of Southern whites who opposed civil rights. This is not some leftwing theory. Two former heads of the National Republican Party acknowledged this fact and have apologized for this policy. RNC Chief to Say It Was 'Wrong' to Exploit Racial Conflict for Votes Also Michael Steele: For Decades GOP Pursued 'Southern Strategy' That Alienated Minorities Starting with Richard Nixon, most Republican Presidential candidates made the deliberate choice to fight for the Southern white vote over the national Black vote.