There are two components to this question.
a.Civil Rights Act of 1964: This law prohibited major forms of discrimination against racial,ethnic,national and religious minorities,and women in voting registration,schools,public accommodations,and the workplace.Specifically,the act authorized the executive branch to implement federal court orders to desegregate schools,and to do so without having to wait for individual parents to bring complaints.The act also strengthened the role of the executive branch and the credibility of court orders by providing that federal grants-in-aid to state and local governments for education must be withheld from any school system practicing racial segregation.Title VII made it unlawful to discriminate in employment on the basis of color,religion,sex,or national origin,as well as race.In order to enforce fair employment practices,the national government could revoke public contracts for goods and services and refuse to engage in contracts with any private company that could not guarantee that its rules for hiring,promoting,and firing were nondiscriminatory.After the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,public accommodations quickly removed some of the most visible forms of racial discrimination.Signs defining "colored" and "white" restrooms,water fountains,waiting rooms,and seating arrangements were removed and a host of other practices that relegated black people to separate and inferior arrangements were ended.In addition,the federal government filed more than 400 antidiscrimination suits in federal courts against hotels,restaurants,taverns,gas stations,and other "public accommodations."
b.Voting Rights Act of 1965: This law protected voting rights by barring literacy and other tests as a condition for voting in six southern states,by setting criminal penalties for interference with efforts to vote,and by providing for the replacement of local registrars with federally appointed registrars in counties designated by the attorney general as significantly resistant to registering eligible blacks to vote.The Voting Rights Act significantly increased African American voting in southern states.

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Public interest groups are any associations seeking government action, the achievement of which will not principally benefit the members of the association.

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