Civil Rights Act 1964 Trivia Questions

Title VII established the EEOC in 1965 to investigate and mediate complaints of employment discrimination based on protected characteristics.

Title II banned segregation in places of public accommodation, ending Jim Crow practices in hotels, theaters, and restaurants nationwide.

JFK was assassinated in 1963. Lyndon B. Johnson pushed the bill through Congress and signed it into law.

Title VII added sex as a protected class after a last-ditch effort by a segregationist lawmaker to kill the bill backfired.

Those protections were not added until later court rulings and executive orders; the 1964 law only covered race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.

It covered private employers with 15 or more employees, as well as state and local governments, unions, and employment agencies.

The 1964 filibuster lasted 75 days, but the record is actually longer—74 days was the formal filibuster, though it's often misremembered as the longest.

A voting rights title was stripped from the bill to secure passage; the separate Voting Rights Act of 1965 later banned literacy tests.