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Legal Timeline
Civil Rights Era: 1951–1963
1951: Executive Order 10308 created Committee on Government Compliance to enforce the prohibition against employment discrimination by firms contracting or subcontracting government orders (Truman)
1953: Executive Order 10479 created the Government Contract Committee to replace the Committee on Government Compliance (Eisenhower)
1954: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, held that public education and segregation of children in public schools solely on the basis of race, even though the physical facilities and other tangible factors were equal, deprived equal educational opportunities to children of the minority group
1955: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas II stated that Southern schools should comply with Brown I "with all deliberate speed," which white Southerners understood as allowing them to resist and only symbolically comply with school desegregation
1957: The Civil Rights Act of 1957 established the Civil Rights Commission (CRC) to protect an individual's rights to equal protection and protected some civil and voting rights, but it lacked substantial enforcement mechanisms
1960: The Civil Rights Act of 1960 guaranteed qualified voters the right to register to vote in any state and the right to sue a state official or acting state official who prevented them from voting
1961: Executive Order 10925 created the Committee on Equal Opportunity to combat discrimination in government employment and in private employment stemming from government contracts (Kennedy)
1961: Monroe v. Pape revitalized Section 1983 of the Civil Rights Act of 1871, by allowing individuals to sue government actors for violations of civil rights
1962: Executive Order 11063 banned racial discrimination in federally funded housing (Kennedy)
1963: Equal Pay Act required employers to pay all employees equally for equal work, regardless of whether the employees are male or female
1963: Executive Order 11114 extended guarantees against employment discrimination to federally assisted contracts in the construction industry (Kennedy) |