A Citizens’ Guide to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the National Lawyers
Guild
T I T L E II
R E L I E F A
G A I N S T D I S C R I M I N A T I O N I N P L
A C E S O F P U B L I C A C C O M M O D A T I O N
THE LAW: Every person
has a right to equal treatment in public places, to full and equal enjoyment of
the goods, services, and facilities of these places, described below,
regardless of race, color, religion, or national origin. Any state supported discrimination
or segregation in a place of public accommodation is illegal.
A P L A C E O F P U B L I C A C C O M M O D A T I O N I S :
An eating place, a
movie, a lunchroom or lunch counter in a store, a hotel, motel or lodging
place. This includes such a place in a retail business establishment or gas
station or a theatre, concert hall, sports stadium or place of exhibition or entertainment.
It also includes any such place within one of the above places, as, for
example, a barber shop or a swimming pool in a motel or hotel, or a department
store which has a restaurant.
W H I C H P L A C E S O F A C
C O M M O D A T I O N A R E C
O V E R E D ?
The places and kinds
of services described above are covered if either (1) their customers or products cross state lines, or (2) discrimination or segregation is
present because of state law or regulation.
W H I C H P
L A C E S A R E N O T C O V E R E D ?
(1) A guest house
which has five rooms or less and which is occupied by the owner as his
home.
(2) A private club or other place
not opens to the public. . . .
T I T L E I V
D E S E G R E G A T I O N O F P U B L I C E D U C A T I O N
THE LAW: Every child must
be assigned to a public school, and may go to a public college,
without regard to race, color, religion or national origin. This Act applies
only where there has been a refusal to assign students to schools because of
race, color, religion or national origin.
W H A T I
S A P U B L I C C O L L E G E ?
A public college is
any college, university, technical or vocational school beyond high school
which is operated by a state or a state subdivision or agency, or which is
operated entirely or mostly with state or federal money or property.
T I T L E V II
E Q U A L E
M P L O Y M E N T O P O R T U N I T Y
THE LAW: This title
(1) sets up an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, whose main job is to
investigate and help in settling disputes based on discrimination in
employment; and (2) forbids certain employment practices.
W H E N D O E S T H I S T I T L E G O I N
T O E F E C T ?
The unlawful
employment practices part goes into effect July 2, 1965. The rest of the title
is in effect now.
T H E S E E
M P L O Y M E N T P R A C T I C E S A R E U
N L A W F U L ( A S O F J U L Y 2 , 1 9 6 5 ) :
(1)
No
employer may fire you or refuse to hire you or discriminate against you in your
wages and conditions of employment, or segregate or classify you in any way
that might deprive you of job opportunities or of your rights as an employee, because
of your race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
(2)
No
employment agency may refuse to refer you for employment, or classify you, or
discriminate against you in any other way, because of your race, color, religion,
sex or national origin.
(3)
No
labor union may exclude you from membership or discriminate against you, or
segregate or classify its membership or refuse to refer you for employment or
limit your employment opportunities in any way, or try to get an employer to discriminate
against you, because of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.…