Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Employment Law MGT. 434
Dan Cone
Pamela Jones Facilitator
September 22, 2003









Introduction
The first paragraph of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution reads, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law, which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws” (1). Conceived in 1868 to address the discrimination of black people, the 14th Amendment provided the foundation to build a country where all people were truly created and treated equally.
For most of the next hundred years, discrimination overshadowed the 14th amen...