RE: Depends on which Civil rights Acts you are referring.
I was referring to the CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964 that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
A lot of good came out of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It would have been better if the law applied only to governments.
The private sector has a profit motive and most businesses would eventually not dicriminate on the basis of thosed covered people. Those that did discriminate would have been shunned by the good citizens of any area.
If you know anything of the bus strikes in some southern cities, the were successful because good Christian white women used their vehicles and gas to transport blacks around town to the point the public transit agencieswere losing so much money, they had to treat blacks the same as whites.