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.
Origins [edit]. By the late 1950s, the civil rights movement had been pressuring Congress to push through legislation to protect the constitutional civil rights of African Americans.The first major piece of civil rights legislation passed by Congress was the Civil Rights Act of 1957.While enforcing the voting rights of African Americans set out in the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution, the act had several loopholes.rigins [edit]. By the late 1950s, the civil rights movement had been pressuring Congress to push through legislation to protect the constitutional civil rights of African Americans.