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Civil Rights Act of 1964

 

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination in the US based on race, colour, religion, sex or national origin. It also outlawed segregation, keeping races separate, at schools, public places and most businesses. It, and the Voting Rights Act a year later, overthrew Jim Crow.


School busing and affirmative action grew out of it as policies designed to meet its demands


It was one of the main civil rights reforms of the 1960s:

  • 1964: Civil Rights Act
  • 1965: Voting Rights Act
  • 1965: Immigration and Nationality Act
  • 1967: Loving v Virginia – overturned laws against mixed-race marriage.
  • 1968: Fair Housing Act

 

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GOP base includes racist ‘elements,’ congressman charges

 

“(CNN) – Over 50 years after Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, the issue of race is back in the political headlines, after comments from Attorney General Eric Holder and events marking the anniversary of the law’s passage renewed the dialogue over race relations in the 21st century.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

No surprise over this ‘news’.

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Scot Nakagawa: Economic Rights are Civil Rights

 

“GRITtv: The demand for jobs was the great unmet demand of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. While many have made that point, few have talked plainly about why the demand for federal investment in training and jobs for the unemployed dropped out of the picture of civil rights. Scot Nakagawa is not afraid to talk about it. Nakagawa is co-founder of Changelab, a social movement think tank, and the author of the regularly provocative Race Files.”

 

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

We invest in incarceration instead of education.

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Making history: After three-year legal battle, first undocumented immigrant lawyer is sworn in

On Saturday, February 1, 2014, Sergio García was sworn in as the first undocumented immigrant lawyer. An important moment in history. Watch the moving video:

 

Community Village‘s insight:

 

JewishNewsOne, no human is illegal. Drop the i-word.

 

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Marlon Brando’s Eulogy: Black Panther Bobby Hutton Funeral, 1968

 

“Marlon Brando’s eulogy at the funeral of 17-year-old Black Panther member Bobby Hutton in San Francisco in 1968.

Brando’s participation in the Black American civil rights movement actually began well before King’s death. In the early 1960s, he contributed thousands of dollars to both the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (S.C.L.C.) and to a scholarship fund established for the children of slain Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. leader Medgar Evers.”
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Investigations Force Feds to Revisit Murders of Civil Rights Era – COLORLINES

There were many more killings than those of activists. A Louisiana black businessman’s murder is the latest case reporters have reopened.

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▶ Was This Execution Cruel And Unusual?

 

“An attorney for the family of a killer whose Ohio execution by lethal injection was marked by several minutes of unprecedented gasping and unusual sounds plans to sue the state over what happened. Dayton defense lawyer John Paul Rion says Dennis McGuire’s family is deeply disturbed by his execution and believes it violated his constitutional rights. Rion is a member of a state Supreme Court panel examining possible changes to Ohio’s death penalty law. He said Thursday all citizens have a right to expect they won’t be punished in a cruel and unusual fashion…”.* Ben Mankiewicz (co-host, What The Flick?! and TYT Sports) breaks it down on The Young Turks.

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