How the Most Important U.S. Civil Rights Law Came to Include Women | N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change

But on February 8, 1964, a committed segregationist and opponent of the bill, Representative Howard W. Smith of Virginia, offered an amendment to add "sex" to the text. Smith's amendment passed.7 And ultimately so did Title VII, with "sex" included.

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