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1964 Civil Rights Act example #5210

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Explain the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
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Prohibited discrimination in public places, provided for the integration of schools and other public facilities, and made employment discrimination illegal. This document was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.
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Name an example that would be protect by the Civil Rights Act
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Sexual harassment
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What organization did Betty Friedan help create?
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National Organization for Women (NOW)
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Name two things women wanted to get out of the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Fight for equal pay and the rights to their body.
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Explain women's suffrage and why is was so signification in the 1964 Civil Rights Act
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Women's right to vote. The signification was that 50 years had passed since women were given the right to vote but they were not being treated like equals. This helped women fight and push for civil rights.
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What famous women activist helped keep the term 'sex' in Civil Rights Act
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Martha W. Griffiths
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Which President ordered all executive agencies to require federal contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and that employees are treated during employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, or national origin."
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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It is said that Howard W. Smith add the term 'sex' in the Civil Rights Act as a joke or an attempt to kill the bill. (True or False)
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False. Howard Smith had worked with longtime women's rights activist Alice Paul, who had chaired the NWP. It was known that the Democratic and Republican Party platforms supported the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) had been for years.
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Name the seven NOW task forces
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1. Education 2.Equal opportunity of Employment 3. Legal and political rights 4. Women in poverty 5. Family 6. The image of women 7. Women and religion
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In response to the 1964 Civil Rights Act name some things women were able to gain.
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Equal Pay Act and Childcare