1. Civil Rights Laws Homburg American Studies

2. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Kennedy worked on it until his assassination. Passed by Congress and signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson

3. Features of the Act Title I: Barred unequal application of voter registration requirements. Title II: Outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin in hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and all other public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce; exempted private clubs without defining the term "private."

4. Title III: Prohibited state and municipal governments from denying access to public facilities on grounds of race, color, religion or national origin. Title VII: Prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin

5. Court Cases Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United States, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case holding that the U.S. Congress could use the Constitution's Commerce Clause power to force private businesses to abide by the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

6. Katzenbach v. McClung was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that Congress acted within its power under the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution in forbidding racial discrimination in restaurants as this was a burden to interstate commerce.

7. Voting Rights Act of 1965 Signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson The Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color