Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII

Abstract

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the key legislation banning public and private discrimination against African Americans or any other racial, ethnic, or religious minority. For the first time in U.S. history, a federal law made it illegal to exclude someone from a job or a public accommodation (such as a hotel, restaurant, or movie theater) because of how he or she looked or where he or she came from or worshiped. Feminists mobilized to insert the category “sex” (along with race, color, religion, and national origin) into Title VII of the act, which regulates employment. As sections 703–705 indicate, the prohibition on employment discrimination included all the mechanisms through which employers, employment agencies, and unions limited access to good jobs.

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