Bill Text: CA SCR130 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Concurrent Resolution 130 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-07-03 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SCR130 Detail]

Download: California-2013-SCR130-Introduced.html

BILL NUMBER: SCR 130	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Mitchell

                        JUNE 23, 2014

   Relative to Civil Rights Act of 1964. .


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SCR 130, as introduced, Mitchell. Civil Rights Act of 1964.
   This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and encourage the citizens of California to
observe the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as an important occasion in the
history of the United States.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, On August 28, 1963, more than 200,000 people participated
in the March on Washington, D.C., to demonstrate their support of
civil rights for African-American citizens, and the mass
demonstration, as well as the violent attacks on peaceful
demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963,
galvanized support for national legislation against segregation,
causing a cataclysmic change in the political and social order in
America; and
   WHEREAS, On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed
the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, legislation proposed by
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the most sweeping civil rights
legislation since Reconstruction; and
   WHEREAS, Upon the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,
President Johnson addressed the American public on July 2, 1964,
stating that the newly passed act "does not restrict the freedom of
any American, so long as he respects the rights of others. It does
not give special treatment to any citizen. ... It does say that there
are those who are equal before God shall now also be equal in the
polling booths, in the classrooms, in the factories, and in hotels,
restaurants, movie theaters, and other places that provide service to
the public. ... This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to
go to work in our communities and our States, in our homes and in
our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our
beloved country"; and
   WHEREAS, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 subsequently has been
amended by the Congress of the United States to extend the
protections of the law to disabled Americans, the elderly, and women
in collegiate athletics programs; and
   WHEREAS, In 2014, the nation will commemorate the 50th anniversary
of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans segregation on
the basis of race, color, religion, gender, or national origin at all
places of public accommodation and prohibits discrimination by
employers and labor unions and the use of federal funds for any
discriminatory program; and
   WHEREAS, The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended legal segregation, and
it is fitting and appropriate that the enactment of this historic
legislation be commemorated in the State of California; now,
therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Senate of the State of California, the Assembly
thereof concurring, That the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act
of 1964 hereby be commemorated and the citizens of the state be
encouraged to observe this important occasion in the history of the
nation; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this
resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.