On August 6, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. This law was needed because federal anti-discrimination law enacted in previous acts was not strong enough to prevail over the resistance of southern...
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James Meredith and Ole Miss
James Meredith was born in Mississippi on June 23, 1933. He served in the Air Force from...
Sit-In Movement
Many African Americans inspired by the , the unjust murder of and the courage of had been...
Emmett Till
His mother insisted in displaying his son’s body in a glass topped casket so that the world could...
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v Board of Education is a landmark case in the African American struggle against segregation...
