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 Summer
In 1964 decided to concentrate their efforts in voter registration in Mississippi which was lagging...
Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
Jim Crow Laws
What was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was a set of laws sponsored by Southern States that required the...
Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest in which African Americans refused to ride buses...
