Civil Rights Act 1964

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by ANDREW BRISTOL0 views·Updated Sep 14, 2020
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  1. Hey, guys.
  2. So for today's jumpstart video, I'll be discussing what you
  3. need to know in order to comprehend the Civil Rights
  4. Act in 1964.
  5. To begin with, the civil rights era is generally speaking
  6. about equality and about ending discrimination.
  7. This is a word that you will see appear in
  8. the upcoming text.
  9. It means unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of
  10. people. And in the in this context, we're talking about
  11. racial discrimination.
  12. Some of the king you figures in the civil rights
  13. era are people that you may have already heard off.
  14. For example, Dr Martin Luther King Jr.
  15. Rosa Parks, even Malcolm X.
  16. So let's begin with some quick background of the Civil
  17. Rights Act 1964.
  18. So following World War Two, the U.
  19. S. Saw a rapid increase or expansion of an economic
  20. boom. This was a time where we see an air
  21. of suburbanization, meaning people purchased small, single family homes outside
  22. of the city limits.
  23. People also enjoyed higher standards of living with new appliances
  24. such as ovens, dishwashers, cars, etcetera.
  25. However, not everyone got to share this great experience of
  26. higher standards of living.
  27. Um, in the 19 fifties, the US haven't had been
  28. adopting or using the separate but equal doctrine doctrine being
  29. another one of our vocabulary terms, which means belief or
  30. set of beliefs.
  31. And in this case, it applies to racial segregation at
  32. all levels of society.
  33. Um, so in addition to segregated communities, um, as you
  34. had saw primarily before, those suburbs have been primarily and
  35. exclusively white communities, whereas African Americans generally lived in impoverished
  36. housing, mostly located in cities, Um, but in addition to
  37. segregated communities, there's also segregated job opportunities, segregated public public
  38. accommodations. So this could include restaurants, Busses, even public restrooms
  39. and water fountains.
  40. As you can see, um, and finally on.
  41. Additionally, the US had segregated education, separate schooling for whites
  42. and black communities.
  43. Which brings us to our final piece of background information
  44. dedicated in this video, which happens to be all dedicated
  45. to education.
  46. Um, so the civil rights leaders, along with African American
  47. constituents, which is members of the voting communities, uh, they
  48. saw desegregating schools as one of their primary goals during
  49. the civil rights era, which eventually came into fruition during
  50. Brown versus the Board of Education, in which Supreme Court
  51. roll that separate but equal that's separate.
  52. But equal doctrine was inherently or essentially unequal.
  53. The ruling became a catalyst, or spark, which polarized they're
  54. divided Americans.
  55. A civil rights movement sparked massive social pressure for Congress
  56. to begin writing new legislation or laws to protect equal
  57. opportunities for African Americans.
  58. However, Congress was polarized and debated these new legislations for
  59. months and using delay tactics such as the filibuster, which
  60. is another term, it means an action such as a
  61. public prolong speech intended to it struck the legislation process.
  62. And eventually Congress managed to overcome this, and they formed
  63. a bipartisan agreement, which means an agreement or cooperation between
  64. both political parties, which eventually results in the civil rights
  65. law of 1964.
  66. So you will be reading this text and you using
  67. the vocabulary that we discussed in this jump start video.
  68. Hopefully, you will be better now to comprehend the civil
  69. rights law in 1964.
  70. Thank you