https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r Civil Rights Movement en-us 2017-03-09 18:12:39 UTC 2023-03-06 09:22:38 UTC hello@padlet.com 283877 https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159078168 Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965 guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote. It was aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States. ]]> 2017-03-09 18:21:35 UTC https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159078168 283877 https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159080343 Was an intimidating figure, for example in the picture shown and wanted things his way. Nobody expected him to be so involved in the Black movement, more than any other previous president before him. 5 days after Kennedy's assassination, he called for Congress to in act the Civil Rights Bill, as the most fitting memorial to his slain predecessor Kennedy. ]]> 2017-03-09 18:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159080343 280316 https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159081357 2017-03-09 18:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159081357 283877 https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159082821 "We have talked long enough about equal rights in this country, it is now time to write the next chapter and write it in the books of law." ]]> 2017-03-09 18:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159082821 283877 https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159083215 Prohibiting racial discrimination in employment institutions like hospitals and schools and privately owned public accommodations such as restaurants, hotels, and theaters. ]]> 2017-03-09 18:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159083215 283877 https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159085789 Grew up share cropping and in a very poor neighborhood, in central Texas Hill County, and fought hard to get to where he was. He'll never forget the poor Mexican and White children he had taught in a Texas school, in the early 1930's. Wanted to support the less fortunate. ]]> 2017-03-09 18:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159085789 anmarcum11 https://padlet.com/283877/q9rmi59hoq4r/wish/159359043 President Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. after signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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