Answer: The first draft of the Civil Rights Act was proposed by John F Kennedy, and later signed into law by President Johnson on July 2, 1964. The act was aimed to prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, and racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations. This was the first federal law of the USA to state that all citizens are protected equally by the law. This draft actually called for more protections for African American voting rights. Civil Right Act is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or origin.
