Civil Rights Act Video Analysis

While there remains a long way for our society to go in terms of reducing racism and prejudic certainly say that we’ve come a long way, baby, in the past 50 years. In 1955, the Civil Rights Act was still nine years from passage—not even a gleam in the Congress. Today, it is a cornerstone of workplace rights legislation, the linchpin upon which employee protection is based.

For countless amounts of years, Americans have fought a battle against discrimination. Discrimination goes all the way back to the time of slavery. There are several important civil rights cases and laws that have changed the United States forever. Civil rights can be defined as, “[t]he freedom to participate in the full life of the community—to vote, use public facilities, and exercise equal opportunity” (Morone and Kersh 115). Also, unlike civil liberties, which limits government action, “[c]ivil rights require government action to help secure individual rights…” (Morone and Kersh 115). The question is, what changed the people of the United States’ minds about political equality and how did government action protect or hurt

Through the years, America has made an overall improvement in eliminating discrimination, inequality and slavery and focusing more on inclusion, equal rights, and equal opportunity. Despite a considerable improvement, there are corporations and individuals that often revert to archaic means of treating employees, creating hostile environments. Consequently, different advocacy groups and laws still remain in effect and continue to evolve to protect the citizens and non-citizens of the USA.

Many women weren’t showed respect from men for the color of their skin or their gender, so it took courage for women like Mary Jackson to stand up for themselves or their work. In the book Hidden Figures, it states, “ Something didn’t seem right to the manager who assigned the work. He insisted that Mary’s calculations were wrong. Mary Jackson respectfully stood by her work. Mary and the division chief reviewed the number and finally discovered that the problem wasn’t with her output it was with his input: he had given her the wrong numbers to use!...But having the independence of mind and strength of personality to defend your work in front of the most powerful aeronautical minds in the world-that’s what got you noticed.”(Shetterly 91-92).

I the article Race the Power of an Illusion, Dalton Conley says, “the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s really marks both an opportunity and a new danger in terms of racial relations in America. On the one hand, the Civil Rights era officially ended inequality of opportunity. It officially ended de jure legal inequality, so it was no longer legal for employers, for landlords, or for any public institution or accommodations to discriminate based on race. At the same time, those civil rights triumphs did nothing to address the underlying economic and social inequalities that had already been in place because of hundreds of years of inequality.” (Conley pp 1). What goes on in the American ghetto is not as glamorous as Hollywood makes it out to be now, this film does a great job at depicting what life in the ghetto for black teens is really like. The ghettos in America are full of broken culture that is left behind from centuries of oppression by the white man. Most teens like those in the movie never make it out of their neighborhoods alive. Thousands of kids die every years from gang on gang violence, damaging all chances of them escaping the ghetto and making something of themselves. Death, gangs, and drugs is the more common way that young people are left with to deal with a life of poverty and survival that seems to have no escape.

In my opinion, While the Civil Rights Act of 1964 obviously prompted huge advancement toward equal freedom in America, I don't think it was an all inclusive answer for the numerous forms that unequal treatment takes. The limits and future Antidiscrimination Law, “The panel looked beyond civil rights legislation as it exists today with a view toward the ways in which the law can still change in order to perhaps better align with society’s changing preferences and goals” (Willey & Butera, 2015, p. 3). What this means is the civil rights of many are still under attack. Let’s take the LGBT community, for instance. Although the law states equal rights for all, the issue with same-sex marriage, transgender public restrooms, or allowing transgender

The sociological issue depicted in the video The New Ghettos of America is deviance. This is any belief, characteristic or action that members of a societal group consider a violation of group norms and that the person who violated these norms will be punished. One example of deviance from the video is the increase in crime in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. There are two cops in the video that talk about having to take twenty-four hour shifts most of the week to at most keep the crime under control because they haven’t even made a dent in solving the problems with drug and gang violence crime. Another example is the woman in Los Angeles who lost her son because gang members came into the house and shot him in his bed while he was unarmed.

Rough Draft & Thesis Statement Minorities are faced with housing discrimination on levels much higher than that of white people which is considered white privilege. Residential segregation has been strategically planned and carried out by multiple parties throughout history and persists today ultimately inhibiting minorities from making any of the social or economic advances that come from living in affluent neighborhoods and communities. From our research, the scholarly sources have depicted multiple causes of racial disparity. Housing segregation perpetuates negative circumstances for people of color, as looked at through history, laws, segregation, real estate, and ... The end of the Civil War and the start of the Industrial Revolution and

One of America’s greatest hallmarks is its constant drive for change and progress towards improving society. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 represents one of the most pivotal moments in American history that exemplifies this hallmark. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. Not all Americans, however, welcomed this legislation. True to the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, America was able to push forward and overcome resistance to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The first challenge to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 came by way of a motel owner in Atlanta, Georgia who asserted that Congress had overstepped its authority under the Commerce Clause with Title

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a major achievement in granting equal opportunity for everyone regardless of their differences. This piece of legislation crafted a framework for change and was created with the intent that all human beings be treated with dignity and respect. Unfortunately, legislation cannot force people to change their hearts and attitudes, and 50+ years later, we see this legislation is still regarded and relevant as more and more groups are singled out for their differences. As a Cuban American, I have seen discrimination firsthand. While I have had it better than some of my peers because I don't possess some of the obvious physical traits that so many people use to label and denigrate Hispanics, I have seen my friends

Neurons communicate with one another along a synapse. Neurons are excitable cells that are activated via electrical or chemical signals. Nerve cells are an integral part of the nervous system. Neurons are made up of three distinct parts. The three integral parts of the neuron are the cell body, the dendrites, and the axon. The cell body is the middle portion of the neuron and contains the nucleus. It also contains the organelles such as the endoplasmic reticulum and the mitochondria.

As far as American society has progressed we will always have a long way to go with the treatment of others, but it is always important to remember how far society has gone The civil rights were about the treatment of the underrepresented and the people with less privilege than the majority, with this you can tell that those people wanted change and change is what they fought for. The problem with civil rights is that the people who want change are minorities as in “people who have fewer rights, power, population, etc.” that means governments can easily ignore their calls for change because the system is fine. People in power can easily say that minorities have no say in what the majority does, so the Majority stays in power denying equal rights

Although several years have passed since the civil rights movement, there continues to be discrimination against people of color. This discrimination is even more prominent towards people of color who have mental or physical disabilities. More

In the United States today discrimination is still an issue in society. As a society progress has definitely been made, but it has never fully gone away. Some of the most discriminatory action takes place in the American justice system. Young minority males between the ages of 25-29 are subject to being treated the most unfairly while whites of the same age are still being treated better than any race in this country. African American and Hispanic males are being incarcerated at higher rates than white males in America. Not only are minorities being incarcerated more, but also they are subject to harsher sentencing terms, fall victim to police racial profiling, and have disparities in the war on drugs. Also whites are still the dominant

In today’s world, the American still has barriers to overcome in the matter of racial equality. Whether it is being passed over for a promotion at the job or being underpaid, some people have to deal with unfair practice that would prevent someone of color or the opposite sex from having equal opportunity at the job. In 2004, Dukes vs. Wal-Mart Stores Incorporation was a civil rights class-action suite that ruled in favor of the women who worked and did not received promotions, pay and certain job assignments. This proves that some corporations ignore the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which protects workers from discrimination based on sex, race, religion or national origin.