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''Heart of Atlanta Motel Inc. v. United States'', 379 U.S. 241 (1964),〔 〕 〔(ATLANTA MOTEL v. UNITED STATES, 379 U.S. 241 (1964) ), APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA. No. 515. Decided December 14, 1964., retrieved September 5, 2011 〕 was a landmark United States Supreme Court case holding that the U.S. Congress could use the power granted to it by the Constitution's Commerce Clause to force private businesses to abide by the Civil Rights Act of 1964. == Background == This important case represented an immediate challenge to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the landmark piece of civil rights legislation which represented the first comprehensive act by Congress on civil rights and race relations since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. For much of the 100 years preceding 1964, race relations in the United States had been dominated by segregation, a system of racial separation which, while in name provided for "separate but equal" treatment of both white and black Americans, in truth perpetuated inferior accommodation, services, and treatment for black Americans. During the mid-20th century, partly as a result of cases such as ''Powell v. Alabama'', 287 U.S. 45 (1932); ''Smith v. Allwright'', 321 U.S. 649 (1944); ''Shelley v. Kraemer'', 334 U.S. 1 (1948); ''Sweatt v. Painter'', 339 U.S. 629 (1950); ''McLaurin v. Oklahoma State Regents'', 339 U.S. 637 (1950); ''NAACP v. Alabama'', 357 U.S. 449 (1958); ''Boynton v. Virginia'', 364 U.S. 454 (1960); and, most notably, ''Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'', 347 U.S. 483 (1954), public opinion began to turn against segregation. Despite the outcomes of these cases, segregation remained in full effect into the 1960s in parts of the southern United States, where the Heart of Atlanta Motel was located. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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