Civil Rights Act Research Paper

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Beginning in 1964 when the Civil Rights Act was enacted, the socioeconomic inequality for African Americans began to slow down as they gained more prominence in the United States. This improvement has continued into the present and will advance as our culture becomes more tolerant. Discussed in this essay are the events leading up to the Civil Rights Act, as well as a thorough explanation of the Act and lastly the great improvements made after this Act was achieved. The Civil Rights Act is a set of laws banning unequal application of voter registration laws, banning racial segregation in schools, workplace and public accommodation and lastly but most importantly forbidding discrimination based on race, colour, religion, sex and national origin …show more content…
For African Americans in the 1600s until 1964, fighting for freedom meant fighting for things regarding employment, schooling and housing, just to name a few. It all started in 1619 when the first documented twenty African Americans were captured and brought over to Virginia by a Dutch ship, slavery was then legalized leading to years of hardship until the 1800s when it was finally banned. To fast forward many decades later, and focus on my main point of the enactment of the Civil Rights Act which rose again in 1963 when John Fitzgerald Kennedy the 35th American president at the time set out in attempt to abolish discrimination. Two and half month after the March on Washington which was a huge political rally where Martin Luther King, Jr gave his famous speech “I have a dream” and proposed ending racism, JFK went into action. Kennedy revived the set of laws that were previously brought into argument by Radical Republicans in 1875, however shut down by the Supreme Court saying they didn’t have the ability to control what private citizens did or didn’t do and was put to rest until 1964. Actions took by John F. Kennedy was the introduction of the laws to legislation and them getting all the way to the

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