Transcript Civil Rights Laws - Spokane Public Schools

Civil Rights Laws
Homburg
American Studies
Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Kennedy worked on it until his
assassination.
• Passed by Congress and signed into law
by Lyndon B. Johnson
Features of the Act
• Title I: Barred unequal application of voter
registration requirements.
• Title II: Outlawed discrimination based on
race, color, religion or national origin in
hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and
all other public accommodations engaged
in interstate commerce; exempted private
clubs without defining the term "private."
• Title III: Prohibited state and municipal
governments from denying access to
public facilities on grounds of race, color,
religion or national origin.
• Title VII: Prohibits discrimination by
covered employers on the basis of race,
color, religion, sex or national origin
Court Cases
• Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United
States, was a landmark United States
Supreme Court case holding that the U.S.
Congress could use the
Constitution's Commerce Clause power to
force private businesses to abide by the
Civil Rights Act of 1964.
• Katzenbach v. McClung was a case in
which the Supreme Court of the United
States held that Congress acted within its
power under the Commerce Clause of
the United States Constitution in
forbidding racial discrimination in
restaurants as this was a burden
to interstate commerce.
Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson
• The Act prohibits states from imposing any
"voting qualification or prerequisite to
voting, or standard, practice, or procedure
... to deny or abridge the right of any
citizen of the United States to vote on
account of race or color