High Court Opens Civil-Rights Suits to All Ethnic Groups.

Fields, Cheryl M.

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ERIC Number: EJ354279

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Publication Date: 1987

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High Court Opens Civil-Rights Suits to All Ethnic Groups.

Fields, Cheryl M.

Chronicle of Higher Education, v33 n37 p1,22 May 27 1987

The Supreme Court ruled that Jews, Arabs, and people from other ethnic groups could file discrimination charges under the Civil Rights Act of 1866. Filing suit under the 1866 law allows complainants to sue for monetary damages and without the strict time limits set by the 1964 statute. (MLW)

Descriptors: Arabs, Civil Rights, Court Litigation, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Ethnic Groups, Higher Education, Jews, Legal Responsibility, Racial Discrimination, Social Discrimination

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