According to, History.com, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. I believe that discrimination is still in affect today but not as bad and violent as it use to be. We discriminate against many things that we never think about. For example, we discriminate about the driving age being sixteen, people still stereotype, racially profile, and discriminate against various races, religions, gender, etc. Our country discriminates every single day but it could range from nothing that severe like the driving age, to something as harsh and real as restricting certain people from doing certain things just because of their color, gender, religion, etc.
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| Lyndon B Johnson shaking hands with Martin Luther King Jr. after signing and passing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |
I believe that we will never be able to overcome these discriminatory issues. They will always be there. I believe, in time, we as a country will be able to discuss these issues with one another and get the differences out of the way for the most part, but they will still always be there.
The movie showed me a lot more about segregation and discrimination than I ever knew. I never knew about some of the famous men that really helped grow the issue and make it even worse that it should have been. I'm excited for tomorrow's field trip because I am very interested in learning more about this harsh and violent time. I am even more excited to hear about our guides telling us about what it was like to live in this time and hearing all of this from a primary source.
