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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Freedom Rides
In March 1961 the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) decided to test the Boynton v. Virginia...
Freedom Summer
In 1964 decided to concentrate their efforts in voter registration in Mississippi which was lagging...
The Albany Movement
In 1961 Albany, Georgia, was a small town of 56,000 people where 40% were African American. In...
Sit-In Movement
Many African Americans inspired by the , the unjust murder of and the courage of had been...
