Civil Rights Act of 1957

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1. THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957 Kaycee Turner PSCI 528
2. Post Civil War Civil Rights Legislation • 13th Amendment • 14th Amendment • 15th Amendment • Civil Rights Act of 1866 • Enforcement Act of 1870 • Enforcement Act of 1871 • Third Enforcement Act, 1871 • Civil Rights Act of March 1875
4. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson Democrat Senator Strom Thurmond
5. What did the Act accomplish? 1. Commission on Civil Rights 2. Assistant Attorney General – Civil Rights Division 3. Remove state restrictions on federal jurors 4. Protect voting rights
6. Path to the Future ▪ First civil rights legislation in over 80 years ▪ Proved Congress could cooperate and pass civil rights legislation ▪ Commission on Civil Rights helped identify problems and find solutions ▪ New Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice helped enforce more effective future legislation “History has demonstrated that inadequate legislation supported by mass action can accomplish more than adequate legislation which remains unenforced ” - Martin Luther King Jr. (In a letter to Richard Nixon, 1957)