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Trumans executive orders
On July 26, 1948, President Truman issued Executive Order 9981 establishing equality of treatment and opportunity in the Armed Services. -
The Civil Rights Act of 1957
The 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 ardent segregationist sustained the longest one-person filibuster in history in an attempt to keep it from becoming law. -
Civil Rights Act of 1960
The Senate's debate over the passage of this bill actually started on February 29, 1960. However, a group of 18 Southern Democrats divided into three teams of six in order to be able to create a continuous filibuster wherein each member would only have to speak for four hours every three days. This system resulted in the longest filibuster in history, lasting over 43 hours from February 29 to March 2. On the morning of March 2nd, only a fifteen-minute break was allowed before the Senate sat for -
JFK's Executive Orders
Executive Order 10984
Amending the Selective Service Regulations Signed: January 5, 1962
Federal Register page and date: 27 FR 193, January 9, 1962
Amends: EO 9988, August 20, 1948; EO 10001, September 17, 1948; EO 10008, October 18, 1948; EO 10116, March 9, 1950; EO 10202, January 12, 1951; EO 10292, September 25, 1951; EO 10328, February 20, 1952; EO 10363, June 17, 1952; EO 10562, September 20, 1954; EO 10594, January 31, 1955; EO 10650, January 6, 1956; EO 10659, February 15, 1956; EO 10 -
The Twenty Fourth Amendment
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, and 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 Uni -
The Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against blacks and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public ("public accommodations"). -
Voting Rights Act of 1965
The 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.
