PROTESTS ACTIVISM AND CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE 1954 1973
THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT DURING THE 1950S
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It was the first Civil Rights law since Reconstruction
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It protected the voting rights of African Americans
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The act brought the power of the Federal government into the Civil Rights debate
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Both A and C
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Detailed explanation-1: -The result was the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The new act established the Civil Rights Section of the Justice Department and empowered federal prosecutors to obtain court injunctions against interference with the right to vote.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why was the Civil Rights Act of 1957 significant? It mandated the desegregation of all public schools. How did Rosa Parks’s actions redirect the tactics of the civil rights movement? They inspired a mass movement of direct action to create political change.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960 were the first pieces of federal civil rights legislation passed since Reconstruction. Initially conceived to better enforce the 14th and 15th Amendments, the 1957 Act was met with fierce resistance from southern white segregationist senators.
Detailed explanation-4: -It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This “act to enforce the fifteenth amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified.