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1957 September 9 -- Civil Rights Act of 1957
1960 May 6 -- Civil Rights Act of 1960
1964 January 23 -- Twenty-Fourth Amendment abolishes poll tax
1964 June -- Freedom Summer is launched to register black voters in the South
1964 July 2 -- Civil Rights Act of 1964
1965 March 7 -- First march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, ends in "Bloody Sunday"
1965 March 15 -- President Johnson urges Congress and the nation to pass a voting rights law
1965 March 21-25 -- Martin Luther King Jr. leads march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1965 August 6 -- Voting Rights Act signed into law |