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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 27 November 2024. 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 ...
The law was the first federal law designed to protect most US employees from employment discrimination based on that employee's (or applicant's) race, color, religion, sex, or national origin (Public Law 88-352, July 2, 1964, 78 Stat. 253, 42 U.S.C. Sec. 2000e et. seq.).
Title IX; Long title: An Act to amend the Higher Education Act of 1965, the Vocational Education Act of 1963, the General Education Provisions Act (creating a National Foundation for Postsecondary Education and a National Institute of Education), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, Public Law 874, Eighty-first Congress, and related Acts, and for other purposes.
November 22, 1963: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson became President of the United States on the death of President John F. Kennedy.; March 30 – June 10, 1964: The longest filibuster in the history of the Senate was waged against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, with 57 days of debate over a 73-day period.
The Bennett Amendment is a United States labor law provision in the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, §703(h) passed to limit sex discrimination claims regarding pay to the rules in the Equal Pay Act of 1963. It says an employer can "differentiate upon the basis of sex" when it compensates employees "if such differentiation is ...
Signed into law by President Ronald Reagan on June 27, 1988 The Supreme Court Case Selections Act of 1988 ( Pub. L. 100–352 , 102 Stat. 662 , enacted June 27, 1988 , codified at 28 U.S.C. § 1257 ) is an act of Congress that eliminated appeals as of right from state court decisions to the Supreme Court of the United States .
Kink turned homicide, a recurring theme throughout Law and Order: SVU’s many seasons, rears its head in this season 3 episode (which, to clarify, there are many safe ways to practice kinks, but ...
Economic Opportunity Act of 1964; Long title: An Act to mobilize the human and financial resources of the Nation to combat poverty in the United States. Enacted by: the 88th United States Congress: Effective: August 20, 1964: Citations; Public law: Pub. L. 88–452: Statutes at Large: 78 Stat. 508: Legislative history