Society’s impact on southern segregation and slavery from Jim Crow Laws to Civil Rights Act.
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Jim Crow Laws Examples
This picture shows examples of just three different Jim Crow Laws ranging from 1903-1930. Jim Crow Laws created laws that separated African Americans and white people that began shortly after slavery ended in 1865. Jim Crow Laws were around until the Civil Rights Act helped remove them nearly century later. https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws -
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Jim Crow Laws
The Jim Crow Laws began shortly after slavery ended in 1865 and lasted until 1965 during the Civil Rights Act. -
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Civil Rights Movement
Time period that the Civil Rights Movement took place over. -
President JKF Addressing the Civil Rights to the Nation on June 11, 1963
This picture shows former president, John F. Kennedy, addressing the civil rights to the nation on television. "This was taken on June 11, 1963, during one of the most critical points of the civil rights movement. There were large events like the Birmingham Campaign, protests that were televised, murders of civil rights activists, causing the civil rights act to be front and center for the government to respond to" (National Park Service). -
Cloture Motion for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This paper is from 1964, during the civil rights act period that lasted from 1955 to 1968. The goal was to give African Americans, along with women and other races/religions, equal rights. This front part of the paper shows the names of senators who signed the bill, along with the description of what their goal is with this bill. Equality for African Americans was finally beginning. The civil rights movement was the turning point for African Americans, by getting rid of the Jim Crow Laws. -
Cloture Motion for the Civil Rights Act of 1964
In an article by National Park Service, (National Park Service). https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5635105