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Truman's Executive Orders, 1948
Executive Order 9981 is an executive order issued on July 26, 1948 by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. It expanded on Executive Order 8802 by establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the Armed Services for people of all races, religions, or national origins. -
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 speech set the record for a Senate filibuster. The bill passed the House with a vote of 270 to 97 and the Senate 60 to 15. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
The 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. On the morning of March 2nd, only a fifteen-minute break was allowed before the Senate sat for another 82 hours. The act was signed into law by President Dwight Eisenhower on May 6, 1960. -
JFK's Executive Orders, 1962
This is when John F. Kennedy signed 89 executive orders. Executive orders are official documents, numbered consecutively, through which the President of the United States manages the operations of the Federal Government. -
Twenty-fourth Amendment, 1964
The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) 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, was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. Poll taxes appeared in southern states after Reconstruction as a measure to prevent African Americans from voting, and had been held to be constitutional by the Supreme Court of the US. -
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. Powers given to enforce the act were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One, its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the 14th and 15th amendment. -
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. Echoing the language of the 15th Amendment, the Act prohibits states from imposing any "voting qualification or prerequisite to voting, or standard, practice, or procedure ... to deny or abridge the right of any citizen of the United States to vote on account of race or color."
