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enjoy the same freedoms that the white population, or the European population, experienced. Through further decades of struggle it was ultimately decided that particular regulations needed to be in place
to further protect minorities. One of those acts was the Civil Rights Act of 1991. The following paper summarizes that particular act. The Civil Rights Act of 1991
While many Civil Rights issues had been resolved over the years, or decades, prior to 1991, the Civil Rights Act of 1991 was
essentially passed as a response to many different decisions, made by the United States Supreme Court, as it related to the rights of employees, employees who had sued employers for
various incidents of discrimination (Wikipedia, 2006). "The Act represented the first effort since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964[1] to modify some of the basic procedural and
substantive rights provided by federal law in employment discrimination cases" (Wikipedia, 2006). One of the most important changes was making it permissible
for people to have a jury trial for any discrimination case and it also presented the possibility of gaining damages for emotional distress from discrimination issues (Wikipedia, 2006). In addition
it limited the amount of damages a jury could award to an individual (Wikipedia, 2006). It is interesting to note that
this particular act actually combined aspects of two other acts, altering federal regulations, which were from the distant, and not too distant, past. One of the previous acts was the
Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the other was the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Wikipedia, 2006). "The two statutes, passed nearly a century apart, approached the issue of employment
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