USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Civil Rights Act of 1964 hastened the end of legal Jim Crow. It secured African Americans equal access to restaurants, transportation, and other public facilities. It enabled blacks, women, and other minorities to break down barriers in the workplace.

Detailed explanation-2: -The landmark 1964 act barred discrimination based on race, color, religion, or national origin in public facilities-such as restaurants, theaters, or hotels. Discrimination in hiring practices was also outlawed, and the act established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to help enforce the law.

Detailed explanation-3: -Resistance to racial segregation and discrimination with strategies such as civil disobedience, nonviolent resistance, marches, protests, boycotts, “freedom rides, ” and rallies received national attention as newspaper, radio, and television reporters and cameramen documented the struggle to end racial inequality.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Mexican American Civil Rights Movement, one of the least studied social movements of the 1960s, encompassed a broad cross section of issues-from restoration of land grants, to farm workers rights, to enhanced education, to voting and political rights. The video documentary Chicano!

Detailed explanation-5: -During the Civil Rights Movement, the focus of African American literature was on racial segregation and black unity. Among many factors that led to the Civil Rights Movement was the rise of black consciousness and the impact of World War II among African Americans.