Beyond Rights

In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Band 61, Heft 2, S. 1-1

Abstract

The 1964 Civil Rights Act certainly deserves a shower of golden anniversary tributes. Thanks to what Clay Risen, in his new book about its passage, calls "the Bill of the Century," most Americans now assume and most welcome the fact that restaurants and hotels cannot turn people away because of their race, that women can apply for the same jobs as men, and that colleges that practice discrimination can't receive federal funds.