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5 unusual facts about Civil Rights Act of 1964


2001 Cumberland vs. Jacksonville State football game

Martin's success as a female athlete is considered a major milestone since the 1972 Title IX amendment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in the United States.

Executive Order 10925

Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (which went into effect on July 2, 1965) and President Johnson's Executive Order 11246 (which was signed on September 24, 1965), the Committee's functions were divided between the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance (which in 1975 was renamed the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs).

Executive Order 11375

During the legislative effort to enact the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "sex" was not among the categories the bill initially covered.

Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review

The journal was established in Spring 1966 in the wake of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Price Waterhouse v. Hopkins

The accounting firm failed to prove that the same decision to postpone Ann Hopkins' promotion to partnership would have still been made in the absence of sex discrimination, and therefore, the employment decision constituted sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


G. Murray Snow

On May 24th, 2013, Snow ruled that the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), and Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and committed acts of racial profiling against Hispanics.

Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics

Despite being the only Senator to vote against both African American U.S. Supreme Court nominees (liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas) and filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Byrd has since said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake."

Lorena Weeks

She claimed that Southern Bell had violated her rights under the 1964 Civil Rights Act when they denied her application for promotion to a higher paying position because she was a woman.

Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

The "sovereignty" the state was trying to protect was against federal enforcement of civil rights laws, such as the 1964 Civil Rights Act and 1965 Voting Rights Act, and U.S. Supreme Court rulings.

No-FEAR Act

On August 18, 2000, a federal jury found the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guilty of violating the civil rights of Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo on the basis of race, sex, color and a hostile work environment, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Politics of the Southern United States

Legal changes came in the mid-1960s when President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through Congress over the vehement objects of Southern Democrats the Civil Rights Act of 1964.


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