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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Events and Dates
Event Date Description Civil War 1861-1865 The election of anti-slavery president Abraham...
Birmingham Campaign
In the 1960s Birmingham, Alabama was the largest industrial city in the South and according to the...
Selma to Montgomery March
Voting rights After the passage of the , civil rights leaders decided to concentrate their efforts...
Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
