The Civil Rights Act of 1964, for example, forbid discrimination on the basis of race in hiring, firing, and promoting.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based of race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Provisions of the civil rights act forbade discrimination based of race as well as sex in hiring, promoting, and firing. It prohibited discrimination in federally funded programs and public accommodations. The act strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools as well.
The act continues to resonate in the US. Passage of the Act ended the application of Jim Crow laws that had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson where the Court held that racial segregation was constitutional. The Civil Rights Act was expanded by Congress eventually to strengthen enforcement of the fundamental civil rights.
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