Passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964)
GPTKB entity
Statements (25)
| Predicate | Object |
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| gptkbp:instanceOf |
gptkb:historical_event
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| gptkbp:date |
July 2, 1964
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| gptkbp:enactedBy |
88th United States Congress
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| https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label |
Passage of the Civil Rights Act (1964)
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| gptkbp:location |
gptkb:United_States
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| gptkbp:longTitle |
An Act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes.
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| gptkbp:opposedBy |
gptkb:Southern_Democrats
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| gptkbp:purpose |
prohibit discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin
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| gptkbp:relatedTo |
gptkb:Brown_v._Board_of_Education
gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement gptkb:Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965 |
| gptkbp:resultedIn |
desegregation of public facilities
increased federal enforcement of civil rights creation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission |
| gptkbp:section |
gptkb:Title_II
gptkb:Title_IV gptkb:Title_IX gptkb:Title_VI gptkb:Title_VII |
| gptkbp:signedBy |
gptkb:Lyndon_B._Johnson
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| gptkbp:supportedBy |
gptkb:John_F._Kennedy
gptkb:Martin_Luther_King_Jr. gptkb:NAACP |
| gptkbp:bfsParent |
gptkb:United_States_(until_1975)
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| gptkbp:bfsLayer |
7
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