<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has original text related to this article: Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States </Td> </Tr> <P> Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, 379 U.S. 241 (1964) was a landmark United States Supreme Court case holding that the Commerce Clause gave the U.S. Congress power to force private businesses to abide by Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in public accommodations . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

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