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Title Vii Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 Originally Provided For Protection Against In Georgia
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This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
Beginning in the 1890s, Georgia and other southern states passed a wide variety of Jim Crow laws that mandated racial segregation or separation in public facilities and effectively codified the region's tradition of white supremacy.
Lester Maddox. Lester Garfield Maddox Sr. (September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American politician who served as the 75th governor of Georgia from 1967 to 1971. Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
This act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on July 2, 1964, prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
Segregation officially ended in Georgia with the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Segregation of schools ended legally after the 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
Following the end of the Civil War, Georgia was part of the Third Military District. The war left most of Georgia devastated, with many dead and wounded, and the state's economy in shambles. The slaves were emancipated in 1865, and Reconstruction started immediately after the hostilities ceased.
In 1965, King helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. He worked tirelessly to assure the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was in attendance when President Johnson signed both that Act and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a comprehensive law that banned discrimination in public accommodations, employment, and voting, whereas the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, specifically addressed discrimination in housing practices.
It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.