Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed the discrimination of race, sex, or national origin. It required equal admittance to public places, employment, enforced integration of schools and the right to vote. Although it did not end discrimination, it made a fresh start in which everyone began accepting each other. Amendments thirteen through fifteen should have stopped discrimination but they only shut down slavery and other major problems, they did not stop the hatred against African-American’s. Many years passed with hardly any action being made to enforce a change. President John F. Kennedy saw the seriousness of the discrimination going on therefore he proposed a civil rights act in a speech on June 11, 1963, which …show more content…
Violence caused a huge problem in many states, this violence became so severe that people lost their lives. On many instances people were killed for urging African-Americans to take place in something the segregationists didn’t want them to. “In 1955, Reverend George Lee, vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and NAACP worker, was shot in the face and killed for urging blacks in the Mississippi Delta to vote.” (Austin) “On September 25, 1961, farmer Herbert Lee was shot and killed in Liberty, Mississippi, by E.H. Hurst, a member of the Mississippi State Legislature. Hurst murdered Lee because of his participation in the voter registration campaign sweeping through southwest Mississippi.” (Austin) Although those are only two instances the violence was extreme against someone standing up for what they believe in they were definitely not the only two, there were countless …show more content…
Restaurants, buses, stores, beaches, swimming pools, restrooms, and even things as simple as water fountains were all segregated. In restaurants whites sat on one side of the building and blacks sat on the other if they were lucky, some restaurants didn’t even allow blacks inside. On buses whites sat in the front and blacks sat in the back and if a white person got on a full bus and an African-American had a seat they were to give it up and stand. Water fountains were separated, one for the whites and one for the blacks. Even though it’s difficult to imagine now since we have an extremely diverse society, before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 segregated objects and places like these really