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Article evaluation: "Civil Rights Act of 1964"

Everything in this article was relevant to the subject, the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The article focuses mainly on the legal and political background of the act, but also goes into the social context preceding the act, which supplements the overall understanding of the article. Throughout the article, the material was consistent and focused, however sometimes the tone and syntax in the article was distracting. Given that this is a scholarly article, there should be a uniform, informative tone throughout the article, which was largely maintained but some of the words used in the article detracted from the intended tone. Because the topic is government legislation from 1964, most of the information is from that time period. However, this act is of great importance and there are more modern applications that are stated in the article, such as the recent Justice Department ruling on transgender discrimination. The section about the influence of the act could be updated to include social events that have taken place over the last five years and how they relate to the Act of 1964. The article does appear to be neutral, it provides an equal view of the Democratic and Republican parties’ views of the Act throughout all stages of the legislative process. Some of the citations go towards websites in the “.com” domain that are neither government-affiliated nor scholarly sources, however, these sources generally provide data and do not introduce bias to the article. Many of the sources are governmental agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the US National Archives websites. Some of the citations are broken links and there are a number of sources that are to journalistic sources, which could introduce bias into the writing. Throughout the article, there are also visual and audio sources that contribute to the understanding of the subject. This article is a part of seven Wikiprojects. The Talk page consists of edits on typos and some incorrect statements that were made throughout the article. There are also conversations about conventions on capitalization and words used to refer to the Civil Rights Act. This Wikipedia article dives deeper into the legislative process of this Act than I was previously taught.