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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Southern Manifesto
What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...
Birmingham Campaign
In the 1960s Birmingham, Alabama was the largest industrial city in the South and according to the...
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v Board of Education is a landmark case in the African American struggle against segregation...
The Albany Movement
In 1961 Albany, Georgia, was a small town of 56,000 people where 40% were African American. In...
