The Title VI Program is defined as part of the transporation planning work program which identies the planning strategies an the planning activities to be undertaken by the Lake~Sumter Metropolitan Planning Organization. Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act provides that no person in the Unites States shall, on grounds of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any programs or activity receiving federal financial assistance.