ESSAY:

The essay must be about any legislation Congress has passed the past forty years addressing issues
about diversity in the workplace, school or public spaces.

1. What specific issue or issues did the legislation address?

2. What is the history about the issue? Problems, the people hurt, etc.

3. Cite (verbatim) parts of the legislation that address the issue (3 pages maximum)

4. What has happened to the issue? Has the legislation addressed it?

5. Court cases?

Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States. (n.d.). Oyez. Retrieved June 10, 2019, from
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/515

Phillips v. Martin Marietta Corporation. (n.d.). Oyez. Retrieved June 10, 2019, from
https://www.oyez.org/cases/1970/73

Lau v. Nichols. (n.d.). Oyez. Retrieved June 10, 2019, from https://www.oyez.org/cases/1973/72-6520

Clarke, J. (2019). Hively v. Ivy Tech Community College. Retrieved from

https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/03/hively-v-ivy-tech-community-college/

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long Struggle for Freedom | Exhibitions -
Library of Congress. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/civil-rights-act-
of-1964.html

GAZZAR, B. (2017). How the Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed America. Retrieved from
https://www.dailynews.com/2014/07/01/how-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-changed-america/

Costly, A. (2019). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 - Constitutional Rights Foundation. Retrieved from
https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/the-civil-rights-act-of-1964

Aiken, Juliet & D. Salmon, Elizabeth & Hanges, Paul. (2013). The Origins and Legacy of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. Journal of Business and Psychology. 28. 10.1007/s10869-013-9291-z.

Hersch, Joni and Shinall, Jennifer Bennett. (2014). Fifty Years Later: The Legacy of the Civil Rights
Act of 1964. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. Available at
SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2523481 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2523481

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1964/515

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1970/73

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1973/72-6520
https://harvardlawreview.org/2018/03/hively-v-ivy-tech-community-college/

https://www.dailynews.com/2014/07/01/how-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-changed-america/

https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/civil-rights-act-of-1964.html

https://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/the-civil-rights-act-of-1964

https://www.britannica.com/event/Civil-Rights-Act-United-States-1964

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-affirmative-action-2834562

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-45353

https://educationpost.org/5-reasons-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964-is-just-as-relevant-today/

https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=6125&context=l
aw_lawreview

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/civil-rights-act

https://law.vanderbilt.edu/phd/faculty/joni-
hersch/2015_Hersch_and_Shinall_Legacy_of_Civil_Rights_Act_Journal_of_Policy_Analysis_and_Manage
ment.pdf

https://www.nps.gov/articles/civil-rights-act.htm