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About the Seminar
Join the South Carolina Bar Civil Rights
Section and CLE Division in celebrating "The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Turns 60!" This seminar will explore the legal history of civil rights
before and after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the impact of
JFK's assassination, changes in civil rights through the court system over the
past 60 years, and the courtroom's ongoing role in advancing social justice.
Seminar Agenda
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Nekki Shutt, Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA
Johanna C. Valenzuela, U.S. Attorney's Office
Historical Context for Passage of The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Patricia Sullivan, Ph.D. (author of “Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement”)
Watch President John F. Kennedy, Jr’s Televised Address to Nation on Civil Rights (June 11, 1963)
Film: Televised Address to the Nation on Civil Rights from JFK Library
The Fight for Passage of The Civil
Rights Act And South Carolina’s Role (From June 11, 1963through July 2, 1964) impact of the assassination of JFK, early civil rights cases leading up to it, and the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 (which it amended).
Hemphill P. Pride, Columbia
Professor O. Vernon Burton, Clemson University
Professor Bobby Donaldson, University of South Carolina Center for Civil Rights History & Research
Watch remarks upon signing the Civil Rights Bill (July 2, 1964)
President Lyndon B. Johnson Film: Remarks upon Signing the Civil Rights Bill (July 2, 1964) Lyndon Baines Johnson
What The Civil Rights Act of 1964
Protects:
-Title I – Voting Rights
-Title II – Public Accommodations
-Title III – Desegregation of Public
Facilities
-Title IV – Desegregation of Public
Education
-Title V – Commission on Civil Rights
-Title VI – Nondiscrimination in
Federally Assisted Programs
-Title VII – Equal Employment
Opportunity
-Title VIII – Registration and Voting
Statistics
-Title IX – Intervention and Procedure
After Removal in Civil Rights Cases
-Title X – Establishment of Community
Relations Committee
-Title XI – Misc. (fines and imprisonment)
Kathleen McDaniel (Public Accommodations and Housing), Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA
Lydia Robins Hendrix (Employment Law), Burnette Shutt & McDaniel, PA
Professor Emily Suski (Education Law), University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
D. Allen Chaney (Voting Rights), ACLU of South Carolina
Lunch Keynote Presentation: Conversation
between Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke and U.S. Attorney for S.C.
Adair F. Boroughs on the Civil Rights Act, its history, its significance,
priorities of the Department of Justice, and emerging issues.
President Lyndon B. Johnson address Congress in joint session, after witnessing marchers beaten during the "Bloody Sunday" incident during the first Selma to Montgomery march, called on Congress to write and pass a Voting Rights Act. During this speech Johnson used the words "We Shall Overcome.” (March 15, 1965)
Film: Lyndon Johnson “We Shall Overcome” Speech
Amendments to The Civil Rights Act of
1964, Other Legislation it Influenced, and Significant Case Law:
-Voting Rights Act of 1965
-Civil Rights Act of 1968
-EEOC Formation 1972
-Americans with Disabilities Act 1990
B. Randall Dong, Disability Rights South Carolina
Armand G. Derfner
Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Caroline Scrantom, S.C. Human Affairs Commission
The Honorable Brian Clarke, EEOC
Johanna C. Valenzuela, U.S. Attorney's Office
What’s Next? Civil Rights legal Issues on the horizon like transgender health, abortion access, gerrymandering, voting rights
D. Allen Chaney, ACLU of South Carolina
Bridget M.S. Brown, S.C. Appleseed Legal Justice Center
Professor O. Vernon Burton, Clemson University
Adjourn
Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 7.33 MCLE credit hours.