The primary reason for uprooting racial discrimination from our society is that it is morally wrong. To end discrimination in housing, education, employment, and lending, nondiscrimination laws needed to be enacted and scrupulously enforced.Discrimination is usually the behavioral manifestation of prejudice and involves negative, hostile, and injurious treatment of members of rejected groups. Discrimination, the intended or accomplished differential treatment of persons or social groups for reasons of certain generalized traits. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. Black men and women served heroically in World War II, despite suffering segregation and discrimination during their deployment. He Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) requested a literature review on gender discrimination. Parks' experience of discrimination provided another opportunity. Spotlight on Claudette Colvin. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.