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...
Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
Birmingham Campaign
In the 1960s Birmingham, Alabama was the largest industrial city in the South and according to the...
Southern Manifesto
What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...
