Civil Rights And Public Accommodations

Author : Richard C. Cortner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Discrimination in public accommodations
ISBN : UOM:39015050474850

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Civil Rights and Public Accommodations by Richard C. Cortner Pdf

"Title II of the 1964 Civil Rights Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations, and shortly after its passage blacks were refused service at the Heart of Atlanta Motel and at Ollie's Barbecue in Birmingham, Alabama, as a test of the new law by business owners who claimed the right to choose their own customers. These challenges made their way to the Supreme Court, becoming landmark cases frequently cited in law. Until now, however, they have never benefited from book-length analysis. Cortner provides an inside account of the litigation in both decisions to tell how they spelled the end to segregation in the South."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sidney Fine
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780814343296

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"Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" by Sidney Fine Pdf

Although historians have devoted a great deal of attention to the development of federal government policy regarding civil rights in the quarter century following World War II, little attention has been paid to the equally important developments at the state level. Few states underwent a more dramatic transformation with regard to civil rights than Michigan did. In 1948, the Michigan Committee on Civil Rights characterized the state of civil rights in Michigan as presenting "an ugly picture." Twenty years later, Michigan was a leader among the states in civil rights legislation. "Expanding the Frontiers of Civil Rights" documents this important shift in state level policy and makes clear that civil rights in Michigan embraced not only blacks but women, the elderly, native Americans, migrant workers, and the physically handicapped.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Discrimination in public accommodations
ISBN : LCCN:63062248

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Civil Rights by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : Christopher W. Schmidt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780226522586

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The Sit-Ins by Christopher W. Schmidt Pdf

On February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in their seats until the store closed. In the following days, they returned, joined by growing numbers of fellow students. These “sit-in” demonstrations soon spread to other southern cities, drawing in thousands of students and coalescing into a protest movement that would transform the struggle for racial equality. The Sit-Ins tells the story of the student lunch counter protests and the national debate they sparked over the meaning of the constitutional right of all Americans to equal protection of the law. Christopher W. Schmidt describes how behind the now-iconic scenes of African American college students sitting in quiet defiance at “whites only” lunch counters lies a series of underappreciated legal dilemmas—about the meaning of the Constitution, the capacity of legal institutions to remedy different forms of injustice, and the relationship between legal reform and social change. The students’ actions initiated a national conversation over whether the Constitution’s equal protection clause extended to the activities of private businesses that served the general public. The courts, the traditional focal point for accounts of constitutional disputes, played an important but ultimately secondary role in this story. The great victory of the sit-in movement came not in the Supreme Court, but in Congress, with the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, landmark legislation that recognized the right African American students had claimed for themselves four years earlier. The Sit-Ins invites a broader understanding of how Americans contest and construct the meaning of their Constitution.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Discrimination in public accommodations
ISBN : IND:30000090880216

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Civil Rights--public Accommodations by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1630 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Discrimination in public accommodations
ISBN : UCAL:B5164540

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Civil Rights by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce,United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface Transportation Pdf

Author : Robert D. Loevy
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438411125

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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 by Robert D. Loevy Pdf

This book details, in a series of first-person accounts, how Hubert Humphrey and other dedicated civil rights supporters fashioned the famous cloture vote that turned back the determined southern filibuster in the U. S. Senate and got the monumental Civil Rights Act bill passed into law. Authors include Humphrey, who was the Democratic whip in the Senate at the time; Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., a top Washington civil rights lobbyist; and John G. Stewart, Humphrey's top legislative aide. These accounts are essential for understanding the full meaning and effect of America's civil rights movement.

Author : Todd S. Purdum
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805096736

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An Idea Whose Time Has Come by Todd S. Purdum Pdf

A top Washington journalist recounts the dramatic political battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the law that created modern America, on the fiftieth anniversary of its passage It was a turbulent time in America—a time of sit-ins, freedom rides, a March on Washington and a governor standing in the schoolhouse door—when John F. Kennedy sent Congress a bill to bar racial discrimination in employment, education, and public accommodations. Countless civil rights measures had died on Capitol Hill in the past. But this one was different because, as one influential senator put it, it was "an idea whose time has come." In a powerful narrative layered with revealing detail, Todd S. Purdum tells the story of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, recreating the legislative maneuvering and the larger-than-life characters who made its passage possible. From the Kennedy brothers to Lyndon Johnson, from Martin Luther King Jr. to Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen, Purdum shows how these all-too-human figures managed, in just over a year, to create a bill that prompted the longest filibuster in the history of the U.S. Senate yet was ultimately adopted with overwhelming bipartisan support. He evokes the high purpose and low dealings that marked the creation of this monumental law, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of new interviews that bring to life this signal achievement in American history. Often hailed as the most important law of the past century, the Civil Rights Act stands as a lesson for our own troubled times about what is possible when patience, bipartisanship, and decency rule the day.

Author : Tracy E. K'Meyer
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813139203

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Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South by Tracy E. K'Meyer Pdf

A noted civil rights historian examines Louisville as a cultural border city where the black freedom struggle combined northern and southern tactics. Situated on the banks of the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky, represents a cultural and geographical intersection of North and South. This border identity has shaped the city’s race relations throughout its history. Louisville's black citizens did not face entrenched restrictions against voting and civic engagement, yet the city still bore the marks of Jim Crow segregation in public accommodations. In response to Louisville's unique blend of racial problems, activists employed northern models of voter mobilization and lobbying, as well as methods of civil disobedience usually seen in the South. They also crossed traditional barriers between the movements for racial and economic justice to unite in common action. In Civil Rights in the Gateway to the South, Tracy E. K'Meyer provides a groundbreaking analysis of Louisville's uniquely hybrid approach to the civil rights movement. Defining a border as a space where historical patterns and social concerns overlap, K'Meyer argues that broad coalitions of Louisvillians waged long-term, interconnected battles for social justice. “The definitive book on the city’s civil rights history.” —Louisville Courier-Journal

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Discrimination in public accommodations
ISBN : LCCN:63062248

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Civil Rights by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Discrimination
ISBN : PURD:32754070201706

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Federal Protections Against National Origin Discrimination by Anonim Pdf

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781668436752

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Research Anthology on Inclusivity and Equity for the LGBTQ+ Community by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

For many decades, the LGBTQ+ community has been plagued by strife and human rights violations. Members of the LGBTQ+ community were often denied a right to marriage, healthcare, and in some parts of the world, a right to life. While these struggles are steadily improving in recent years, disparities and discrimination still remain from the workplace to the healthcare that this community receives. There is still much that needs to be done globally to achieve inclusivity and equity for the LGBTQ+ community. The Research Anthology on Inclusivity and Equity for the LGBTQ+ Community is a comprehensive compendium that analyzes the struggles and accomplishments of the LGBTQ+ community with a focus on the current climate around the world and the continued impact to these individuals. Multiple settings are discussed within this dynamic anthology such as education, healthcare, online communities, and more. Covering topics such as gender, homophobia, and queer theory, this text is essential for scholars of gender theory, faculty of both K-12 and higher education, professors, pre-service teachers, students, human rights activists, community leaders, policymakers, researchers, and academicians.

Author : Alan Friedlander,Richard Allan Gerber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004384071

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Welcoming Ruin by Alan Friedlander,Richard Allan Gerber Pdf

This Civil Rights Act of March 1, 1875 banned racial discrimination in public accommodations. This first full study demonstrates that the Republicans enacted it believed that civil equality under the law would produce social order in the former rebel South.

Author : Victor H. Green
Publisher : Colchis Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Negro Motorist Green Book by Victor H. Green Pdf

The idea of "The Green Book" is to give the Motorist and Tourist a Guide not only of the Hotels and Tourist Homes in all of the large cities, but other classifications that will be found useful wherever he may be. Also facts and information that the Negro Motorist can use and depend upon. There are thousands of places that the public doesn't know about and aren't listed. Perhaps you know of some? If so send in their names and addresses and the kind of business, so that we might pass it along to the rest of your fellow Motorists. You will find it handy on your travels, whether at home or in some other state, and is up to date. Each year we are compiling new lists as some of these places move, or go out of business and new business places are started giving added employment to members of our race.

Author : Christopher W. Schmidt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108426251

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Civil Rights in America by Christopher W. Schmidt Pdf

This book tells the story of how Americans, from the Civil War through today, have fought over the meaning of civil rights.