The Civil And Social Rights Act Of 1964

Many people around the world know the United States for its “freedom and equality for all.” What fewer people know is the long, violent, and complex journey that it took millions of Americans to make that statement apply to them. Up until the Civil Rights Act of 1964 the United States was a segregated nation, dividing the “white-privileged” majority and the mix-colored minorities. From African Americans, to Chicanos, to Asian Americans, and various other ethnic groups, the journey that these minority Americans faced was filled with struggles, torment, and humiliation. Despite these obstacles, they continued to fight for what they believed was right, and that was to have the civil and political rights that were privileged to the white, majority extended to them.
Civil rights are suppose guarantee equal protection under the law. Therefore, when civil and political rights are not guaranteed to all, or when such guarantees exist on paper but are not respected in practice, resistance, legal action, and even social unrest most likely will occur as a result. So the question at hand is why were these groups of people outcasted and rejected from having civil and political rights in the first