The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 9, 1957 and was originally proposed by Attorney General Hebert Brownell. This Act was the first legislative civil rights...
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Events and Dates
Event Date Description Civil War 1861-1865 The election of anti-slavery president Abraham...
The Albany Movement
In 1961 Albany, Georgia, was a small town of 56,000 people where 40% were African American. In...
Southern Manifesto
What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...
Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
