Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws discrimination against a job seeker or employee on the basis of race, color, religion, sex. In Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 discrimination in the workplace and at colleges and universities was prohibited.Title VII forbids discrimination in employment based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, with some limited exceptions. Religious Discrimination. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the main source of federal law dealing with the issue of religious discrimination. Both Title VII of the Federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) make reverse discrimination illegal. The Age Discrimination in Employment Act(ADEA) makes it illegal to discriminate against someone because of age. This law protects people who are 40 or older. The CCRI, unlike Title VII, bans discrimination based on ethnicity as well as discrimination based on race and national origin. City of Chicago,3 the Supreme Court held that the later application of a policy with a disparate impact constituted a discriminatory "use" of the policy.