Civil Rights Act of 1964

1. A federal law that authorized federal action against segregation in public accommodations, public facilities, and employment. The law was passed during a period of great strength for the civil rights movement, and President Lyndon Johnson persuaded many reluctant members of Congress to support the law.

Example Sentences

Walberg’s letters said the committee would be investigating whether the schools violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin in programs and activities receiving federal financial assistance.

From Los Angeles Times

Indeed, Kennedy immediately began hiring more African Americans in the federal government, and it wouldn’t be long before one could hear clear echoes of Baldwin in his own rhetoric on the national stage, and then in the administration’s legislative decisions, most notably in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act the following year.

From Slate

“Despite the leadership of George Mason University claiming that it does not discriminate on the basis of race, it appears that its hiring and promotion policies and practices from 2020 to the present, implemented under the guise of so-called ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion,’ not only allow but champion illegal racial preferencing in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

From Salon

Harvard, the Supreme Court held in June 2023 that the affirmative action admissions programs at Harvard violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

From Slate

Title VI and Title VII were both part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, signed by Lyndon Johnson to dismantle Jim Crow laws throughout the United States.

From Slate