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- Civil Rights Era (1950–1963) - The Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Long . . .
Mitchell waged a tireless campaign on Capitol Hill to secure the passage of a comprehensive series of civil rights laws—the 1957 Civil Rights Act, the 1960 Civil Rights Act, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and the 1968 Fair Housing Act
- “When It Was So Rough that You Couldn’t Make It”: Voting Rights in the . . .
(Future posts in this series will explore cases of voter discrimination in more depth, highlighting events and documents from the early 1960s voting rights movement )
- The Struggle for Voting Rights | National Museum of African American . . .
Across the South, literacy tests, poll taxes, and other regulations discouraged voting, especially in areas with large Black populations Activists urged Congress to pass legislation that removed these obstacles and gave African Americans the ability to exercise their rights as citizens
- 50 YEARS OF THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT
This report examines minority voter registration and turnout, racially polarized voting, policy outcomes by race, and the number and share of minority elected officials from the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 until today
- A Historical Analysis of Voting Rights and Racial Disparities
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s aimed to eliminate racial discrimination and secure equal voting rights for African Americans, leading to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which prohibited racial discrimination in voting
- 1950 - 1969 - 1950-1969 - minorityvotingrights. weebly. com
Between 1950 and 1969 a majority of the Minority voting issues that occurred were on the basis that African-Americans did not have the same rights as White Americans
- The Voting Rights Movement Of The 1950s And 1960s | ipl. org
The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s stands as a powerful statement of the transformative role of social movements and interest groups in improving voting rights in the United States
- Civil Rights movement in the 1950s | EBSCO Research Starters
Although African Americans in some southern states continued to be denied the right to vote after 1957, the new act was an important legal step It set the stage for additional Civil Rights Acts in 1960, 1964, 1968, and 1991, as well as for the Voting Rights Acts of 1965 and 1982
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