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Legislation
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Truman Executive Orders, 1948
It created a committee to examined military roles produres and practices that intefered with fair treatment of military personnel.It address discrimination against race, color, religion, and national orgin. -
Civil Rights Act of 1957
This act was foucsed on voting rights. It created a civil rights divison in the justice department and created a U.S Civil Rights commison. It gave Federal officials the power to prosecute anyone who denies another person of their right to vote. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
It established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalitites anyone who atteme ted to block someone from registering or actually voting. -
JFK's Executive Orders, 1962
The order was to prevent discrimation in housing owned or operated by the federal government or purchased or built with federal aid. -
Twenty-Fourth Amendendment 1964
It prohibited the U.S. government or individual states from making voters pay a poll tax before they could vote in a nation electron. This happen because the southern states were trying to keep African Americans from voting -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This act stated that no one can discrimate against African Americans. That they couldn't be discriminated in any public place or school. -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
It applied a nation wide prohibition against the denial of the right to vote based on literacy test. It was ment to be inforced nationwide.
