Cardozo Law Review
Abstract
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964. The legislative history of the Act provides an extraordinary glimpse at one of the most heavily debated pieces of legislation in our country's history. It also chronicles one of the longest debates that Congress has ever endured. Seeking to define the scope of the legislation, a reticent administration and a divided Democratic party struggled with the bill in hopes of coming to an agreement on what some would come to call "silver writes." The Act's supporters were persuaded that it answered "a moral question in the right way," while its opponents called it dangerous and invoked the Fifth Amendment. Everyone wanted to know how much it would cost.
Keywords
Discrimination, Social Group Issues, Employees, Employment, Employment Practice and the Law, Civil Rights
Disciplines
Civil Rights and Discrimination | Labor and Employment Law | Law
Recommended Citation
Jacqueline L. Williams,
The Flimsy Yardstick: How Many Employees Does It Take To Defeat a Title VII Discrimination Claim?,
18
Cardozo L. Rev.
221
(1996).
Available at:
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/clr/vol18/iss1/12