GREEN, Ohio â Southwest Airlines announced major cuts at the Akron-Canton Airport on Tuesday, including all nonstop flights to Florida and a route to Las Vegas that hasn't even begun yet. The cuts take place in mid-April, according to Kristie Van Auken, Akron-Canton's senior vice president.
Introduction. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which ended segregation in public places and banned employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, is considered one of the crowning legislative achievements of the civil rights movement.ead-up to the Civil Rights Act. Following the Civil War (1861-1865), a trio of constitutional amendments abolished slavery, made the former slaves citizens and gave all men the right to vote regardless of race.
Creating the Commission on Civil Rights. President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957 into law on September 9, 1957. On September 9, 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil rights legislation to be enacted since Reconstruction.Part I of the Act created a Commission on Civil Rights within the executive branch.nitially, the election of Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952 did not seem to signal a more vigorous approach to civil rights issues. But other events would compel the involvement of the president and eventually Congress.