HRT 240 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Hospitality Management Studies, Lunch Counter, Soda Fountain

• School: Cal Poly Pomona
• Department: Hospitality Management
• Course: HRT 240
• Professor: Edward Perez

Document Summary

The civil rights act of 1964: (federal law, federal statue)- public accommodations: civil rights- the personal rights that derive from the constitution. Scope of the civil rights act of 1964: (as demanded) 4 protected classes: race- group of people from different place with similar feature, color- color of the skin, but not the race, religion- what you believe in, e. g. muslim, christian, buddhism, national origin- where you are from. A subsequent amendment added gender to the list of protected classes. Establishment included- drive-in restaurants, retail-store lunch counters, sandwich shops, lunch counter at golf course, food facilities at hospitals. Any motion picture house, theater, concert hall, sport arena, stadium, other place of exhibition or entertainment. Also includes health spas, beach clubs, and golf clubs. Interstate commerce- business transactions between people or companies from two or more states. Transients- people passing through a place for only brief stay or sojourn.