The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation; it was originally proposed by President Kennedy on June 19, 1963 and was signed into law on July 2, 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. The Civil...
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Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
Freedom Summer
In 1964 decided to concentrate their efforts in voter registration in Mississippi which was lagging...
Birmingham Campaign
In the 1960s Birmingham, Alabama was the largest industrial city in the South and according to the...
The Albany Movement
In 1961 Albany, Georgia, was a small town of 56,000 people where 40% were African American. In...
