How might this the Civil Rights Act of 1964 affect juveniles, homicide, and victimization among people of minority groups?
Civil Rights Act of 1964 will surely stay the most important legal act for the minorities groups in American history. Was also called as the "bill of the century."
The film Selma is the perfect example of the arduous fight of the black minorities groups for their rights liberation and equality during a protracted period of time.
In his fascinating and very structured book, “The bill of the century”, published for the 50th Anniversary of Civil Rights Act of 1964, author Clay Risen, consider this Act to be “single most important piece of legislation passed in twentieth-century America.”1
The Civil Rights Act of 1964, argues Clay Risen in his impressive and compelling “The Bill of the Century,” was the “single most important piece of
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The strongest point of the film is of course the protagonist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as well the actor, who plays the principal role David Oyelowo.
During the fight for voter rights, King has several meetings with President Johnson (performed by the effective Tom Wilkinson ), who not only gives all his support to the King, but is also is willing to listen to his crucial and compelling advises for the legislation application .
Nonetheless, there is not only one principal idea of the law application resistence in oposition by the white population, author gives us an other exemple. This is the conflict of the political interests between the President Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover (Dylan Baker), where the last one stays undefeated ( unconquerable) racist. Alongside the director of the film spotlight on the political opposition, she requisite (urge) the change's necessity into the American society. .
The role of the