Critical Analysis Of The Civil Rights Act Of 1964

Rights Act of 1964 is critical for a number of reasons. This landmark legislation made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, ethnicity, color, religion, or national origin. It prompted change in voter registration and voting requirements, and made it illegal to discriminate in employment and in public places such as schools, parks, transportation, and restaurants—places we often take for granted today” (p. 293). “The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced in November 1963 by President John F. Kennedy and was passed in July 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson” (2014, p. 293). “Thus, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was groundbreaking and revolutionary in many ways. Indeed, there were freedom rides, marches, boycotts, sit-ins, and active advocacy ultimately leading to the change in the laws” (p. 293).

Small wonder we have been saddled with accounts that maintain that African captives, in the dehumanizing experience of the Middle Passage, lost their cultural heritage and simply became acculturated to Euro-American customs and beliefs” (p. 401). “Cambridge University Press and identifies nearly 26,000 slaving voyages between 1519 and 1867, provides a great deal of evidence on the Africans' resistance to enslavement during the Middle Passage. One in every ten slave transports experienced slave rebellion of some sort, and that as many as one hundred thousand slaves may have lost their lives in them” (2006, p.