The Civil Rights Act of 1875 was enacted as law on March 1st 1875 by President Ulysses Grant. It was introduced by Massachusetts senator Charles Summer in 1870. The Act declared: All persons regardless of color, race or...
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Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest in which African Americans refused to ride buses...
Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
The Albany Movement
In 1961 Albany, Georgia, was a small town of 56,000 people where 40% were African American. In...
Jim Crow Laws
What was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was a set of laws sponsored by Southern States that required the...
