637), and as further amended by section 601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 90), is further amended as follows: (a) Insert "1" after "(a)" in subsection (a) and add at the end of ...

The 1960 Act directed U.S. District Judges to appoint ... Title IX--Appeals: Of great concern to civil rights demonstrators, this section permits appeal to a higher Federal court of any ...

The 1960 Presidential Election The presidential ... We are the advance guard of a massive moral revolution for jobs and freedom." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Support for a federal Civil Rights ...

Image caption, In 1960, Black students held sit-ins at ... key in the struggle for equality for Black Americans. The Civil Rights Act was passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

The order came more than a year after Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and just months after he signed the Voting Rights Act following violent attacks on voting rights advocates in ...

They were also key in bringing about landmark legislation such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. For his efforts to fight racial inequality, King became the ...