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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Emmett Till
His mother insisted in displaying his son’s body in a glass topped casket so that the world could...
Freedom Summer
In 1964 decided to concentrate their efforts in voter registration in Mississippi which was lagging...
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v Board of Education is a landmark case in the African American struggle against segregation...
Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
