Civil Rights Act of 1968

 Signed by President Johnson in 1968 shortly after Martin Luther King Junior’s death, the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Housing Act, was a follow up of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Housing Act outlawed racism when selling housing based on race, religion, and national origin. It banned 4 major types of discrimination when selling, renting, and advertising a dwelling. According to this act, housing discrimination is the “refusal to sell or rent a dwelling to any person because of race, color, religion, or national origin.” Later sex, the disabled, and families with children were added to this list. After the act was taken into effect it began to change the United States immediately, although people did not follow the Act until it was enforced. The Civil Rights Act of 1968 was a major role to the ending of racism in the U.S. because it gave equal rights to people of all races, religion and origin when buying, selling, or renting a house. It is still in effect today and always will be.