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New Jersey Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights Act (2011) CROWN Act (2019) New Mexico New Mexico Constitution, Article II, §18 (1973) CROWN Act (2021) New York Malby Law (1895) [9] Ives-Quinn Act; Marriage Equality Act (2011) Dignity for All Students Act (2010) New York Human Rights Law (1945) Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (2019)
Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 - Specifically prohibits discrimination and violence against people with physical and/or mental disabilities. [3] Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (Prevention and Control) Act, 2017 - Prohibits discrimination and propagation of hate against people with HIV.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 2 March 2025. Landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law This article is about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For other American laws called the Civil Rights Acts, see Civil Rights Act. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Long title An Act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the ...
Laws forbidding discrimination in housing, public facilities and employment were first introduced in the 1960s covering race and ethnicity under the Race Relations Act 1965 and the Race Relations Act 1968. In the 1970s, anti-discrimination law was significantly expanded.
The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights Movement. Trump Revokes Workplace Discrimination Rules Enacted By LBJ In 1965 ...
Gruening supported anti-discrimination laws and pushed for their passage. [105] In 1944, Alberta Schenck staged a sit-in in the whites-only section of a theater in Nome. [106] In 1945, the first anti-discrimination law in the United States, the Alaska Equal Rights Act, was passed in Alaska. [107]
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
Although sometimes counted among Jim Crow laws of the South, statutes such as anti-miscegenation laws were also passed by other states. Anti-miscegenation laws were not repealed by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but were declared unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court (the Warren Court) in a unanimous ruling Loving v. Virginia (1967).