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History And Benefits Of EEAC: The Civil Rights Act Of 1964

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Ron Metzgar
Instructor: Nathalie Brech
Introduction to Human Resources
10 December 2014
The History and Benefits of EEOC In 1963 John F Kennedy saw that there were changes that needed to take place and so the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was born. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, also known as the EEOC was created in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that was created while John F, Kennedy was in office. This Act was a bill addressing not only discrimination in employment, but also discrimination in other areas such as voting, public accommodations, and education. The law was forged and passed in an atmosphere of urgency. There was growing unrest in the employment sector due to the discrimination and the racial turmoil of the time. There were riots, beatings, deaths, fires; the US was in a state of unrest. The civil rights struggle was played out on the TV's in thousands of American homes in 1963. On June 11th 1963, John F. Kennedy stood up on live TV and pressed the Congress of the United States …show more content…

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