What is Civil Rights Act of 1968?
The '''Civil Rights Act of 1968''' ({{USStatute|90|284|82|73|1968|04|11}}) is a [[Lists of landmark court decisions|landmark law]] in the [[United States]] signed into law by [[President of the United States|United States President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] during the [[King assassination riots]]. The 1968 act expanded on previous acts and did not allow discrimination on race, sex, or religion concerning the sale, rental, and financing of housing. Since 1988, the act protects [[people with disabilities]] and families with children. Pregnant women are also protected from illegal discrimination because they have been given familial status with their unborn child being the other family member.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.thenation.com/article/176437/hate-crime-laws-dont-prevent-violence-against-lgbt-people#|title=Hate Crime Laws Don't Prevent Violence Against LGBT People|author1=Michael Bronski|author2=Ann Pellegrini|author3=Michael Amico|magazine=The Nation|date=October 2, 2013|access-date=November 26, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131120055933/http://www.thenation.com/article/176437/hate-crime-laws-dont-prevent-violence-against-lgbt-people|archive-date=November 20, 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Title X, commonly known as the '''Anti-Riot Act''', makes it a [[felony]] to carry on a riot.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Committee to Defend the Conspiracy|url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1969/jun/19/the-committee-to-defend-the-conspiracy/|access-date=4 October 2013|newspaper=The New York Review of Books|date=19 June 1969|author1=Peter Babcox|author2=Noam Chomsky|author3=Judy Collins|author4=Harvey Cox|author5=Edgar Z. Friedenberg|author-link5=Edgar Z. Friedenberg|display-authors=etal|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111019221919/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1969/jun/19/the-committee-to-defend-the-conspiracy/|archive-date=October 19, 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> The initial vote in the [[United States House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] was 327–93 (161