The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation; it was originally proposed by President Kennedy on June 19, 1963 and was signed into law on July 2, 1964 by President Lyndon Johnson. The Civil...
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The Albany Movement
In 1961 Albany, Georgia, was a small town of 56,000 people where 40% were African American. In...
Emmett Till
His mother insisted in displaying his son’s body in a glass topped casket so that the world could...
Southern Manifesto
What is the Southern Manifesto? In 1956 politicians from southern states issued the Declaration of...
Jim Crow Laws
What was Jim Crow? Jim Crow was a set of laws sponsored by Southern States that required the...
