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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Plessy v. Ferguson
By the end of 1877 southern states were replacing Reconstruction governments for more...
Southern Manifesto
What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...
Freedom Rides
In March 1961 the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) decided to test the Boynton v. Virginia...
Freedom Summer
In 1964 decided to concentrate their efforts in voter registration in Mississippi which was lagging...
