The above statement is True. The civil rights act of 1964 gave federal government the authority to initiate enforcement of court orders or civil rights legislation.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the gold standard for civil rights law in the country, and it is still relevant today. With the passage of the Act, "Jim Crow" rules that had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case Plessy v. Ferguson—in which the Court determined that racial segregation that was allegedly "separate but equal" was legal—were no longer in effect. Congress eventually amended the Civil Rights Act to bolster the protection of these fundamental civil rights.
