..... The democrat party effectively destroyed the black family unit by taking advantage of discrimination of blacks after segregation ended. How are we going to rescue our black American brethren and restore a once strong black family unit?
"Intojoy" will be hard pressed to explain as to how these landmark pieces of legislation under the Johnson Administration were in any way responsible for "effectively destroy(ing) the black family unit by taking advantage of discrimination of blacks."
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241)
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- is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States
- outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
- prohibited unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
- Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally
1. its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8),
2. its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment
3. its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.
The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, at the White House.
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The Voting Rights Act of 1965
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- a landmark piece of federal legislation
- prohibits racial discrimination in voting
- designed to enforce the voting rights guaranteed by the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution
- the Act secured voting rights for racial minorities throughout the country, especially in the South
- according to the U.S. Department of Justice, the Act is considered to be the most effective piece of federal civil rights legislation ever enacted in the country.
The Voting Rights Act contains numerous provisions that regulate election administration
1. "general provisions" provide nationwide protections for voting rights
2. Section 2 is a general provision that prohibits every state and local government from imposing any voting law that results in discrimination against racial or language minorities
3. other general provisions specifically outlaw literacy tests and similar devices that were historically used to disenfranchise racial minorities
4. contains "special provisions" that apply to only certain jurisdictions
5. a core special provision is the Section 5 preclearance requirement, which prohibits certain jurisdictions from implementing any change affecting voting without receiving preapproval from the U.S. Attorney General or the U.S. District Court for D.C. that the change does not discriminate against protected minorities
6. another special provision requires jurisdictions containing significant language minority populations to provide bilingual ballots and other election materials
The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the Civil Rights Movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1968 (also known as the Fair Housing Act)
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- a landmark part of legislation that provided for equal housing opportunities regardless of race, religion, or national origin and made it a federal crime to “by force or by threat of force, injure, intimidate, or interfere with anyone - by reason of their race, color, religion, or national origin.”
- Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 is commonly known as the Fair Housing Act and was meant as a follow‑up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibited discrimination in housing, but provided no federal enforcement provisions
- the Civil Rights Act of 1968 expanded on previous acts and prohibited discrimination concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing based on race, religion, national origin
- since 1974, gender was added
- since 1988, the Act protects people with disabilities, families with children
- the 1968 Act provides for federal solutions while the 1866 act provides for private solutions (i.e., civil suits)
- Titles II through VII comprised the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968, which applies to the Native American tribes of the United States and makes many, but not all, of the guarantees of the Bill of Rights applicable within the tribes (that Act appears today in Title 25, sections 1301 to 1303 of the United States Code).
The Act was signed in 1968 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who had previously signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.
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