Dec 16, 2009
Salem on History | The Civil Rights Act of 1968 Outlaws Discrimination in Housing
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Human Rights Series
- Categories: Government and Politics, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest, Economics
- Subcategories: Race, Ethnicity, Racism, Civil Rights, Minority Rights, Minorities, Business, Laws, Acts, Legislation, Human Rights, Discrimination, Prejudice
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, African American History
- Geographical Location: Washington, D.C.
- Date: March, 1968-April, 1968
Article abstract: The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was designed to reduce discrimination in the purchasing, renting, and leasing of
housing by members of ethnic and racial minorities.
Summary of Event
Residential segregation became a staple of American society in the late nineteenth century and continued into the
twentieth. It began in southern cities, in compliance with the “Jim Crow” principle of the inappropriateness
of close social contact between the races. Residential segregation became the vehicle to separate blacks from whites. It
was...
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