User:Mitchumch/Congress during the Civil Rights Movement
Appearance
See also
[edit]- Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
- Civil Rights Act of 1957
- Civil Rights Act of 1960
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Civil Rights Act of 1968 (or Open Housing Law of 1968)
- Richard Russell, Jr.
Committee and floor actions
[edit](See Revolution In Civil Right by the Congressional Quarterly for section "Chronology Of Legislation On Civil Rights")
Further reading
[edit]General
[edit]- Zietlow, Rebecca E. (2006). Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814797075.
Senators
[edit]- Asch, Chris Myers (2011). The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807878057.
- Finley, Keith M. (2008). Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807133453.
Civil Rights Act of 1964
[edit]- Loevy, Robert D. (1997). The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law That Ended Racial Segregation. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 9780791433614.
External links
[edit]- Office of the Historian; Office of Art & Archives, Office of the Clerk. "Constitutional Amendments and Major Civil Rights Acts of Congress Referenced in Black Americans in Congress". Black Americans in Congress. Retrieved 24 August 2015.