Civil rights act of 1964

T. Diffendal's Major Civil Rights Measures

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    Major Civil Rights Measures

  • Truman's Exective Orders

    Truman's Exective Orders
    On July 26, 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the Armed Services.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1957

    Civil Rights Act of 1957
    primarily a voting rights bill, was the first civil rights legislation enacted by Congress in the United States since Reconstruction.After it was proposed to Congress by then-President Dwight Eisenhower, Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, an argent segregationist sustained the longest one-person filibuster in history in an attempt to keep it from becoming law. His one-man filibuster consisted of 24 hours and 18 minutes and began with readings of every state's election laws in alphabetic.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1960

    Civil Rights Act of 1960
    was a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote or actually vote.

  • JKF's Executive Orders

    JKF's Executive Orders
    This executive order delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury the president's authority to issue silver certificates under the Thomas Amendment of the Agricultural Adjustment Act.

  • Twenty-Fourth Amendment

    Twenty-Fourth Amendment
    prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964.

  • Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Civil Rights Act of 1964
    was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public .

  • Voting Rights Act of 1965

    Voting Rights Act of 1965
    is a landmark piece of national legislation in the United States that outlawed discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disenfranchisement of African Americans in the U.S.