Civil Rights Act of 1968

The Civil Rights Act of the United States from 1968 ( also called the Fair Housing Act ) expanded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and was signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on April 11, 1968.

He forbade the following types of discrimination:

1 The refusal of a person for an apartment or a house on the grounds of race, color, religion or nationality to rent or sell.

2 A different treatment of a person in the terms of the rental or sale.

3 Viewing a rental or purchase object with reference to discrimination on the basis of the above criteria.

4 coercion, threat, intimidation or influence the use of the rental and purchase rights and action against individuals or organizations that support the use of these rights. In this connection it may be mentioned in particular the boycott of brokers.

The decision of the law was by the assassination of Martin Luther King - a week earlier - affected.