📅 2 July 1964
President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation prohibiting discrimination in specified public accommodations and employment and strengthening federal action against segregation. Years of organizing...
📅 6 August 1965
President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act after sustained organizing against racial disenfranchisement. It supplied federal tools to address discriminatory registration and election...
📅 3 October 1965
Johnson signed the Immigration and Nationality Act, replacing the national-origins quota system that privileged some national populations over others. The reform challenged a major institutional...
📅 11 April 1968
Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 prohibited specified discrimination in housing sales, rentals and financing. The law addressed institutions that restricted residential access by race and...
