Civil Rights act 1964

The civil rights act was passed on July 2, 1964 by president John .F. Kennedy. It prohibits segregation of any kind towards religion, gender, or race. This act caused schools and workplaces to integrate, while public facilities opened up to all people of any race, gender, or religion. The act was very new, so it's power to be enforced was very weak at first, but soon the U.S Congress used it's power to enforce the act more efficiently in everyday life. There is still racism today, however it is on both sides. Police brutality is heavy of African Americans, and some workplaces reject African Americans because of race. And on the other side, several groups of African Americans violently protest against white people in circumstances that are not necessary. All in all, racial tensions in our country are at an all time high. There is only one way to fix racial division. There are no more laws that could be created, to fix these problems because the problems lie with the people. The people of America must find a way to come together and celebrate our similarities, rather than constantly worry about our differences. If we come together as people, then sooner or later racism will snuff its' self out. Civil rights act

Civil rights protest 1963

Newspaper Research

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Chicago Tribune - July 28, 1894

• This Article, from the Chicago Tribune in 1894, tells about the slums of many great american cities
• The U.S congress launched a full scale investigation of the populations of slum districts of metropolitan areas
• The cities that met the requirements of over 200,000 inhabitants were Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Washington D.C, Baltimore, and New Orleans
• There was believed to be at least 800,000 inhabitants of slum districts in these cities combined.
• Instead the Slum population was taken of only New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago

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Pittsburgh Daily Post - November 21, 1915

• In 1910 there were approximately 13,400,000 causes of sickness among the 33,500,000 people with gainful employment
• causing about $366,107,145 in lost wages from the people missing work due to sickness
• Workers are often exposed to the great health hazard of lead poisoning 
• Almost every occupation had some sort of health hazard involved. They were extremely common
• The only reason that health hazards were overlooked so much, is because they rarely killed people 

Boys play in the dirty street of a New York slum- 1905