(This is much like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in our history, it just happened earlier in Neo-Noire’s history)

The Civil Rights Act of 1952 was landmark civil rights and U.S. labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.

Powers given to enforce the act were initially weak, but were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One, its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment, and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment.

The bill was called for by U.S. Representative Elbridge Canfield in 1949, in which he asked for legislation “giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments”—as well as “greater protection for the right to vote”. Canfield delivered legislation as a bill to the House of Representatives in the aftermath of the elevated racial tensions and wave of black riots in the spring 1949 and the growing number of demonstrations and protests throughout the southern United States.