The Servicemen's Readjustment Act Of 1944

The G.I. bill, officially known as the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, was created to help veterans of the World War II. The bill established veterans’ hospitals, provided for vocational rehabilitation, and made low-interest mortgages available. Prior to the war, higher education in the United States was mostly private, liberal arts, small-college, rural, residential, elitist, and often discriminatory from institution to institution with respect to race and religion. Not only did the GI Bill make access to higher education practical for men from all backgrounds, it changed the meaning of higher education in public consciousness from the 1950s onward. (Cohen, May 20, 2015)

Civil Rights Act 1964

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy was

assassinated and his Vice President, Lyndon B. Johnson, became President. One of the most important pieces of legislation in American history, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawed segregation in the public, putting an end to the Jim Crow system, which was born at the turn of the century. In addition to banning job discrimination based on race, the law also banned discrimination based on sex as well, beginning a revolution in employment opportunities for women. After vicious attacks by Alabama state troopers on voting-rights in Selma, AL, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed practices designed to prevent blacks from voting.