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    The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The...
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    began a filibuster intended to prevent the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster—an extended speech designed to stall legislation—began...
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  • conduct of individuals Civil Rights Act of 1957, establishing the Civil Rights Commission Civil Rights Act of 1960, establishing federal inspection of local...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the Enforcement Act or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) is a United States federal law that...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1991 is a United States labor law, passed in response to United States Supreme Court decisions that limited the rights of employees...
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    Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957 during...
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    established on December 9, 1957, by order of Attorney General William P. Rogers, after the Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the head office of Assistant Attorney...
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    The Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 90–284, 82 Stat. 73, enacted April 11, 1968) is a landmark law in the United States...
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    Lyndon B. Johnson during the height of the civil rights movement on August 6, 1965, and Congress later amended the Act five times to expand its protections...
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    integral part of the creation of the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ, and helped write the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Olney was born in 1904 in Oakland, California...
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  • allowed to end of slavery with the Civil Rights Act of 1866, followed by women's suffrage, among other rights, The Civil Rights Act of 1866 was enacted...
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  • timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States, a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional...
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    most fully realized segment of the book" the fifth section describes Johnson's battle to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1957, navigating the north-south...
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    and signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The legislation established the Civil Rights Commission and the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division and...
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  • 1866 Civil Rights Act of 1871 Civil Rights Act of 1957 Civil Rights Act of 1964 Civil Rights Act of 1968 Civil Rights Act of 1991 Equal Pay Act of 1963...
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  • As of 1992, 172 federal mandates obliged state or local governments to fund programs to some extent. Beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and...
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    Civil rights leaders are influential figures in the promotion and implementation of political freedom and the expansion of personal civil liberties and...
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    Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.[citation needed] In many situations...
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    segregation and previously supported the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1960, Goldwater opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, saying it was unconstitutional...
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    Clarence Mitchell Jr. (category Mitchell family of Maryland)
    passage of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s: the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the...
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  • The history of the 1954 to 1968 American civil rights movement has been depicted and documented in film, song, theater, television, and the visual arts...
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  • the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The phony quotation was later traced to the antisemite Eustace Mullins. On June 7, 1957, during a debate on the Civil Rights...
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  • Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division, Voting Section, archived from the original on 2001-04-20, retrieved 2007-01-05 "Voting Rights Act Reauthorization...
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  • Thumbnail for National Civil Rights Museum
    National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the civil rights movement...
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    Montgomery marches; and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Fair Housing Act of 1968, marked significant milestones...
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    Irving Ives (category American people of English descent)
    known as a specialist in labor and civil rights legislation. Ives voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Irving Ives was born in Bainbridge...
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  • northern faction was more supportive of civil rights. Although its scope was limited, the ensuing Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first such legislation since...
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    Birmingham Civil Rights Institute is a large interpretive museum and research center in Birmingham, Alabama that depicts the events and actions of the 1963...
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