https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4 1950s/1960s en-us 2017-03-18 15:04:49 UTC 2025-11-15 14:57:10 UTC hello@padlet.com camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160936648 Congress passes the Voting Rights Act of 1965, making it easier for Southern blacks to register to vote. Literacy tests, poll taxes, and other such requirements that were used to restrict black voting are made illegal.]]> 2017-03-18 15:18:00 UTC https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160936648 camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160936755 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlawed major forms of discrimination against racial, ethnic, national and religious minorities and women. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public. It was the most sweeping legislation of its kind in the history of the country and provided the federal government with the power to enforce desegregation.]]> 2017-03-18 15:19:51 UTC https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160936755 camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160937022 The 24th Amendment abolishes the poll tax, which was a strategy to keep African Americans from voting in elections. The Supreme Court made this practice unconstitutional in five remaining Southern states that still used it.]]> 2017-03-18 15:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160937022 camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160937157 About 200,000 people join the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Congregating at the Lincoln Memorial, participants listen as Martin Luther King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. ]]> 2017-03-18 15:27:03 UTC https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160937157 camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160937654 Civil rights activists known as "Freedom Riders" rode interstate buses into the segregated South in order to protest a variety of civil rights violations. Along the way, Freedom Riders were met with great hostility, and many were arrested for violating local Jim Crow laws. The first Freedom Ride left Washington, D.C., on May 4, 1961.]]> 2017-03-18 15:33:43 UTC https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160937654 camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160938399 The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in 1960 which led to the Woolworth's department store chain reversing its policy of racial segregation in the southern United States. While not the first sit-ins of the African-American Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history. The primary event took place at the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.]]> 2017-03-18 15:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160938399 camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160938604 The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960.]]> 2017-03-18 15:48:47 UTC https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160938604 camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160938714 Although Brown v. Board of Education made segregated schools unconstitutional, schools all over the country remained deeply segregated. Nine black students, who became known as the "Little Rock Nine" are blocked from entering the school on the orders of the governor of Arkansas. President Eisenhower sends federal troops and the National Guard to intervene on behalf of the students.]]> 2017-03-18 15:50:47 UTC https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/160938714 camerongupton https://padlet.com/camerongupton/7x5d09a6abq4/wish/244810429 Text All persons shall be entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, and privileges, advantages, and accommodations of any place of public accommodation, as defined in this section, without discrimination or segregation on the ground of race, color, religion, or national origin. 

Civil Rights Act by the United States Congress, 1964
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