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When women were almost left out of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill

Did you know that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn’t supposed to include job protections for women? Title VII—the section that covers job discrimination—included race, color, religion and national origin. Gender? That was a late addition. Find out how it got there in this latest installment of What The History?!

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