- Civil
Rights Timeline since 1948
- Offers a quick guide to milestones in the civil
rights movement, including laws and executive
actions.
- U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights
- Its mission is "To investigate complaints alleging
that citizens are being deprived of their right to vote
by reason of their race, color, religion, sex, age,
disability, or national origin, or by reason of
fraudulent practices."
- Civil
Rights Movement, 1955-1965
- "The Civil Rights Movement was at a peak from
1955-1965. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964
and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, guaranteeing basic
civil rights for all Americans, regardless of race, after
nearly a decade of nonviolent protests and marches,
ranging from the 1955-1956 Montgomery bus boycott to the
student-led sit-ins of the 1960s to the huge March on
Washington"
- The
Civil Rights Act of 1964
- This document is from US government archives: "In
1964 Congress passed Public Law 82-352 (78 Stat. 241).
The provisions of this civil rights act forbade
discrimination on the basis of sex as well as race in
hiring, promoting, and firing. "
- Key
Supreme Court Cases for Civil Rights
- This account comes from the Leadership Conference:
"The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights is a
coalition charged by its diverse membership of more than
200 national organizations to promote and protect the
civil and human rights of all persons in the United
States."
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