Direct discrimination. This means treating someone less favourably than someone else because of a protected characteristic.With a few notable exceptions, Martin was spared exposure to the pains of racial discrimination. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, preventing employment discrimination due to race, color, sex, religion or national origin. We must never adjust ourselves to racial discrimination and racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. For information on where to report discrimination, see the below section: What If I Have Been Discriminated Against? So how do you prove discrimination at work? Was Martin Luther King against all forms of discrimination, or only discrimination against black people? Well if there are lagging standards in the Negro community, and there certainly are, they lag because of segregation and discrimination.