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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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    The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign from 1954 to 1968 in the United States to abolish legalized racial segregation, discrimination...
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  • Civil Rights Act may refer to several acts of the United States Congress, including: Civil Rights Act of 1866, extending the rights of emancipated slaves...
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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 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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    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 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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    Archie Wooden Civil rights movement in popular culture History of fountains in the United States Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 Scott Johnson...
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  • hate crime statistics. Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1968, enacted 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2), permits federal prosecution of anyone who "willfully injures...
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    Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. April 11 – Civil Rights Act of 1968 is signed. The Fair Housing Act is Title VIII of this Civil Rights Act, and bans...
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    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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    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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    Native American civil rights are the civil rights of Native Americans in the United States. Native Americans are citizens of their respective Native nations...
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    Clarence Mitchell Jr. (category Mitchell family of Maryland)
    Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act (Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968). In 1969, he was awarded the Spingarn...
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    John C. Stennis (category Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives)
    v. Board of Education. He also voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Civil Rights Act of 1968. He supported...
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    Thomas Kuchel (category State Controllers of California)
    Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court, while Kuchel did not vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1968. Kuchel...
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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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    assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., a leading African-American civil rights activist, on April 4, 1968, Washington, D.C., experienced a four-day period of violent...
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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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    Ramsey Clark (category Presidents of the American Bar Association)
    Clark supervised the drafting of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968. After leaving public office, Clark led many progressive...
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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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    Act, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. After the 1964 election, Johnson passed even more sweeping reforms. The Social Security Amendments of 1965 created...
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    amends Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Fair Housing Act). The consolidated Act is administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development...
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    April 4, 1968) was an American Christian minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement...
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  • the Tet Offensive 1968Civil Rights Act of 1968, commonly known as the Fair Housing Act 1968 – A New York Senator and a leading 1968 Democratic presidential...
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