Sentences with phrase «civil rights acts»

Republicans fought slavery, and passed the civil rights acts, whild democrats burned crosses all around the country.

You do realize Republicans were the ones that passed all those Civil Rights acts, correct?

In its Vance vs. Ball State decision Monday, the Supreme Court curtailed the ability of employees to sue for workplace discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Congress passed it to overturn the Supreme Court's 1976 decision that pregnancy discrimination is not sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In an attempt to redress the wrongs of slavery following its abolition in 1865, Congress passed the 1875 Civil Rights Act — which, among other things, forbade most forms of discrimination in public accommodations.

That ruling ushered in the «separate but equal» era in the U.S., with its disgraceful Jim Crow laws that essentially legalized segregation for nearly 100 years, until the 1964 Civil Rights Act was passed.

What's more, the speech — along with the entire March on Washington — led to important policy changes, most notably the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

She sued under the Civil Rights Act, but the Supreme Court rejected her claim, narrowly construing the law to limit the opportunity for redress to within six months after «a discrete unlawful practice takes place.»

The debate will continue over whether protected classes need to be expanded under the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and whether those expansions are worth the legal and regulatory costs to business associated with them.

That's due in part to the workplace regulation — the Equal Pay Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act — that popped up in the second half of the 20th century.

Most states have implemented laws against gender discrimination, and the 1964 Civil Rights Act protects women at the federal level.

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which covers the subject of discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, religion, sex or creed

The Justice Department argued that it violated the Civil Rights Act, putting the state at risk of losing more than $ 1 billion in federal funding.

His next book, The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act, will be published in April.

IBM tells the story of racially integrating its facilities more than a decade before the Civil Rights Act mandated they do so.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, he cemented a political alliance between African Americans and the Democratic Party that continues to this day.

Expanding Mandates In «The Selma Analogy» (May), R. R. Reno wrote, «I certainly hope that if I had been in Goldwater's position I would have voted for the Civil Rights Act.»

Since the Civil Rights Act, discriminationhas become a dirty word» no matter that it is no more than an upscale, polysyllabic synonym for choice.

A company that even printed out a contract like that would be liable under the Civil Rights Act, because it is illegal to discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of religion.

Did you know that prior to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, there were five predecessor civil rights bills proposed to Congress — all by the Republican Party.

Any weapon, once created, can and will be used by anyone with a reason to seize it; the Civil Rights Act created a whole arsenal, and fallen human nature provides ample reason.

If you discount the Dixiecrats who immediately became Republicans 91 % of the Dems voted for the civil rights act.

Yes the Southern Democrats voted against the Civil rights act and then they immediately became Republicans.

Should the passage of the Civil Rights Act have been help up until we addressed the «root causes» of racism?

However, they were allowed to function as servants, maids, and nannies (thus you will hear Mormons insist they were «allowed» in) In 1978 — more than 10 years after the civil rights act, the IRS finally threatened to take away their tax - free status.Man!

Mormons were devout racists until suddenly in 1978 — more than 10 years after the Civil Rights Act.

The Jewish organization alleges religious discrimination and unfair business competition, on the basis of several California statutes, including the state's civil rights act, which prohibits the refusal to engage in a business transaction on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin or sex.

You defenders of religion keep some interesting company: Osama Bin LLaden, Iraninan Mullahs, Saudi Wahabists (who will cut your head off in public if you preach anything but Islam), Joe Smith who preached that black people did not have souls (the church changed it mind after the civil rights act and are now bigotted against gay people), the Taliban, the pope and his child rapists, ignorant & stupid evangelicals who think that revelations is a roadmap to the future.

Religion isn't under attack but property rights sure are and have been since the introduction of the Civil Rights Act.

The Republican party of Lincoln became the Republican party of Romney when the Democrat LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act, which pushed all of the old Southern white racists into the Republican party.

Those groups suggest that federal employment discrimination protections will burden religious employers and co-workers, but belittle a robust religious exemption that has served the interests of religious groups under the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for nearly four decades.

Forty - five percent of Americans say the country has made a lot of progress toward racial equality in the 50 years since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, according to a Pew Research Center poll.

Al Gore's dad voted against the civil rights act, if i remember....

As for your silly «agenda» nonsense, gays are not a «special interest group» anymore than blacks were before the civil rights act was passed.

This music has existed in the last 50 years or so since the ’64 Civil Rights Act.

From an unknown Baptist preacher leading a bus boycott in 1955, he became, just nine years later, the acknowledged moral leader of our country, standing in the oval office of the White House for the signing of the historic Civil Rights Act.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and subsequent legislation, executive policy, and judicial expansion mobilized the power of the state to effectively crush racist practices, especially in the South.

, the Civil Rights Act of 1965, gender equality laws, women in authority, working women, reproductive education, family planning, contraception, condoms, gay rights and a host of others.

While the denomination wasn't founded until nine years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, many of its churches were already in existence.

Recent sex discrimination cases resulting in large settlements, in some cases awards of multi-million dollars, to be split with aggressive trial attorneys, are the latest examples of misusing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The woman sued under the state's civil rights act.

After the school suspended two girls who were allegedly in a lesbian relationship, the girls» parents sued, saying the school was violating the state's civil rights act protecting gay men and lesbians from discrimination.

It is instructive to note, however, that in the debates of 1964, proponents and opponents of the proposed Civil Rights Act both listed all of the forms of federal financial assistance that would be cut off if the act passed, and neither side mentioned tax exemption.

They remember that African - Americans gave Republican President Dwight Eisenhower nearly 40 percent of their votes but abandoned the GOP en masse after Goldwater became one of the few Republicans in Congress to vote against the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

Desperate, angry, and galvanized pro-sod activists learned that if they could make a compelling case that they were born gay, they could become eligible for minority Status as a Suspect Class under the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

It was because of the Civil Rights Act and other pressures, including and especially a revelation from god.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 signaled triumph over a great national evil.

August 28, 1963: Two hundred thousand Americans participate in the March on Washington and hear Martin Luther King, Jr., proclaim his dream of a country in which his children will be judged by the content of their character rather than the color of their skin; ten months later, Congress enacts the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

That change made possible Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act, and the Voting Rights Act.

So a blow was struck that had much the same effect as the Civil Rights legislation, but in the area of information access that the Civil Rights Act did not cover.