Today is the anniversary of the signing of the Civil Right Act of 1968. It's a follow up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Right Act of 1968 prohibited the following forms of discrimination:
- Refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of his race, color, religion or national origin. People with disabilities and families with children were added to the list of protected classes by the Fair Housing Amendments Act of 1988.
- Discrimination against a person in the terms, conditions or privilege of the sale or rental of a dwelling.
- Advertising the sale or rental of a dwelling indicating preference of discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin (and, as of 1988, people with disabilities and families with children.)
- Coercing, threatening, intimidating, or interfering with a person's enjoyment or exercise of housing rights based on discriminatory reasons or retaliating against a person or organization that aids or encourages the exercise or enjoyment of fair housing rights.
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You can read more at the wiki site. You'd think that they would've included everything in the first Civil Rights act but they didn't. Due to some federal laws people of color were not able to acquire a place to stay just because of the draconian laws. I can't imagine my friends not having a place to stay just because they're black or Hispanic. Some say that the bill was pushed by the fact that Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4th – just a week before.
Reading about them got me thinking the Civil Rights Movement wouldn't be successful if blacks and whites were not friends. These friendships no matter what color your skin is forged bonds that made a better future for kids. Now you and me can have friends no matter what color skin we have!
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