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Federal legislation passed in 1965 to prohibit racial discrimination in voting, aiming to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote.
The House registered multiple roll-call milestones on the path to the of 1965: an initial House passage of on July 9, 1965, by a vote of 333–85 ( bill), and the House’s later adoption of the conferenc...
The legal and social gains won by the mid-20th century civil rights movement are real and durable—landmark laws and court decisions reshaped public life—but many of those gains are contested in practi...
The cleared with broad bipartisan majorities: passed S.1564 77–19 and passed H.R.6400 with 333 yeas to 85 nays on its final House tally, with party-line breakdowns showing large Democratic support but...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964, amid a bruising congressional fight and national debate, yet its passage did not prevent Lyndon B. Johnson from winning the presidenti...
From the end of in 1877 through the passage of the in 1965, Democrats and Republicans occupied different, shifting positions on segregation: Southern and many state-level Democrats built and defended ...
The civil rights movement of the 1950s–60s delivered landmark legal victories—most notably the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—that dismantled statutory segregation and outl...
Most reporting assembled here portrays Martin Luther King Jr. as a quintessential transformational leader defined by vision, moral authority, charisma, resilience and nonviolent disruption . What is l...