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Constitutional Law -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, James C. Kirby, Jr.
Constitutional Law -- 1964 Tennessee Survey, James C. Kirby, Jr.
Vanderbilt Law Review
The prosecutions in McKinnie v. State, arose from "sit-in" demonstrations by which a group of Negroes attempted to obtain service at a privately operated cafeteria in Nashville. The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has since been held by the United States Supreme Court to abate these particular prosecutions and the prospective application of its public accommodations provisions makes it unlikely that their facts will recur.
The Experience Of State Fair Employment Commissions: A Comparative Study, Arnold H. Sutin
The Experience Of State Fair Employment Commissions: A Comparative Study, Arnold H. Sutin
Vanderbilt Law Review
Passage of the new federal civil rights law in 1964 might have been expected to decrease the importance of the state fair employment practices (FEP) laws. Congress, however, chose not merely to permit these laws to continue in force to deal with purely local problems,but went further to entrust the primary administration of title VII, the federal fair employment statute, to state agencies where they exist. Thus the experience of these state agencies is of even greater importance now than formerly, for they will perform the day to day work of carrying out our nation's policy to prohibit discrimination in …