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Federal Government Help

Federal Government Help. In The Civil Rights Movement. Civil Rights Act of 1957. Established Fed. Commission on Civil Rights Established Division in the Justice Dept. to enforce Civil Rights Enlarged Fed. Power to protect voting rights. Civil Rights Acts of 1964.

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Federal Government Help

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  1. Federal Government Help In The Civil Rights Movement

  2. Civil Rights Act of 1957 • Established Fed. Commission on Civil Rights • Established Division in the Justice Dept. to enforce Civil Rights • Enlarged Fed. Power to protect voting rights

  3. Civil Rights Acts of 1964 • Banned discrimination in most employment and in public accommodations • Enlarged federal power to protect voting rights and speed up school desegregation • Established Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to ensure fair treatment in employment

  4. Voting Rights Act of 1965 • Eliminated voter literacy tests • Enabled federal examiners to register voters

  5. Civil Rights Act of 1968 • Prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of most housing • Strengthened anti-lynching laws

  6. Which law do you think benefited the most people?

  7. Assassination of MLK • April 4, 1968 – MLK stepped onto a balcony and was shot • Many called for immediate peace • Worst urban rioting in US history

  8. Kennedy Brothers • June 11, 1963 – JFK used fed troops to force Alabama gov. to honor a court order on desegregating U of Alabama • JFK demanded sweeping civil rights bill • Robert Kennedy – after MLK assassination, spoke in African American neighborhood made a plea for non-violence • Robert – made Eulogy for MLK

  9. Robert Kennedy’s Eulogy For those of you who are black – considering the evidence… that there were white people who were responsible – you can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization – black people amongst black, white people amongst white, filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort, as MLK did, to understand and comprehend , and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.

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