Civil Right Act Of 1964 Essay

The Civil Right Act of 1964 is an act which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. It is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement (history.com). It is meant to bring equality. And equality here is meant to all of the Americans, regardless what color they are, and what their religion and nationality are. This paper, later on, would explain further about how and why The Civil Right Act of 1964 and the impact of the said act to the future life of Americans.

It has been fifty one years since The Civil Right Act of 1964 was signed by President Lyndon Johnson. The Civil Right Act of 1964 was not an act that is spontaneously made. There were so many events that led this movement to happen in America. One decade before 1964 for example, on December, 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks, a black person, sat in front of a city bus in Montgomery, Alabama when back at the time, there was segregation on the city’s public vehicles and she didn’t want to give up her seat to white passenger. She was arrested for violating

This kind of discrimination was its peak exactly in the year of 1993. It was in the time when Bill Clinton ruled as President of United States. He signed a law (consisting of statute, regulations, and policy memoranda) directing that military personnel “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue, and don’t harass”, which is famously known as Don’s Ask Don’t Tell. That was a law about the service of homosexual in the military. In the act of wanting to protect homosexuals at that time, Clinton was being supported by gay activists that for decades has been yearning their right to go to military. Clinton succeeded to gain support to do the rule by claiming that homosexual servicemen and servicewomen could remain in the military if they did not tell their sexual