Civil Rights Act of 1968

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President Johnson signing the 1968 Civil Rights Act

The United States Civil Rights Act of 1968 (also called the Fair Housing Act ) is a federal law . It expanded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968 . The law is part of the Great Society reform program .

It banned the following types of discrimination , some of which are referred to as redlining :

  1. The refusal to rent or sell an apartment or house to a person on the basis of race, color, religion or nationality.
  2. Treating a person differently in terms of rental or sale.
  3. Displaying a rental or purchase property with reference to discrimination based on the above criteria.
  4. Coercion, threats and intimidation or influence on the use of rental and purchase rights as well as measures against persons or organizations that support the use of these rights. In this context, the boycott of brokers can be mentioned in particular.

The law's decision was influenced by the assassination of Martin Luther King a week earlier.

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