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.
The act established the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) for two years and created a civil rights division in the Justice Department, but its powers to enforce voting laws and punish the disfranchisement of black voters were feeble, as the commission noted in 1959.assage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 dealt the deathblow to southern congressional opposition. Momentum for tougher voting rights legislationâexpanding on the provisions of Section I of the 1964 actâbuilt rapidly because of President Johnsonâs continued determination and unfolding civil rights protests.