1 sett 1968 anni - Civil Rights Act of 1968

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The Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act, was designed to eliminate any discrimination in buying homes and aimed to have equal housing rights for all Americans. As mentioned in "Civil Rights," Kevin D. Smith states that, "The fair housing fight came to a head after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. President Lyndon B. Johnson responded to King's assassination by pushing through the Civil Rights Act of 1868 which featured an open housing provision the covered eighty percent of the nation's housing," (5). This act targeted the discriminatory practices of redlining, which was taking over the US. Redlining was when government officials would outline a special part of a city for only African Americans to live. Although the Civil Rights Act of 1968 attempted to destroy redlining, relators and neighborhood associations found ways around this law to keep black people contained and segregated from the rest of the population. This was especially graphic in Coates's writing in the book "Between the World and Me" when he says, "Fear ruled everything around me, and I knew, as all black people do, that this fear was connected to the Dream out there, to the unworried boys, to pie and pot roast, to the white fences and green lawns nightly beamed into our television sets," (Coates 29). Coates illustrates the fact that they will never be able to achieve this dream of living in a house with a white picket fence and green lawns because they look a certain way. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was a step in the right direction to help with discrimination towards African Americans, but when there are cracks and shortcomings in the act, then it will not be sufficient enough to eliminate segregation which affects everyone, including people in Milwaukee.

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