"We whites created slavery, Jim Crow segregation and contemporary racial discrimination over 400plus years now," Feagin said. Discrimination is usually the behavioral manifestation of prejudice and involves negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of members of rejected groups.How do you believe that the two laws that prohibited segregation and racial discrimination in voting changed the lives of African Americans? Discrimination, the intended or accomplished differential treatment of persons or social groups for reasons of certain generalized traits. With a few notable exceptions, Martin was spared exposure to the pains of racial discrimination. This was King's first articulated response to the Jim Crow laws of discrimination. Both Gandhi and King suffered humiliation because of color prejudices. Discriminatory Screening of Recruits. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. An example of direct discrimination would be refusing to admit a student because of their race.