On August 6, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. This law was needed...
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Voting Rights Act of 1965
On August 6, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. This law was needed...
National Urban League
The National Urban League was founded in New York City on September 9, 1910 by Ruth Standish...
Important Activist and Leaders
The Big Six The Big Six are the six major leaders of key civil rights institutions that...
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins (1901 – 1981) was a prominent civil right activist, leader and journalist...
Whitney Young Jr.
Whitney Moore Young Jr. (1921-1971) was an American Civil Rights leader and head of the...
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came...
John Lewis
John Lewis (1940) is one of the Big Six leaders of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s...
James Farmer
James Farmer (1920-1999) was one of the of the African American Civil Rights Movement of the...
Philip Randolph
Philip Randolph (1889-1978) was one of the earliest civil rights activists of the 1950s. He...