...Court in a series of historic actions with profound repercussions on our whole political system. (499) The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act...reapportionment decisions beginning with Baker v. Carr in 1962 and extending through Wesberry \. Sanders and Reynolds v. Sims in 1964 have already contributed...

...expansion of the electorate, including women, blacks (most of whom were effectively excluded up to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965), and eighteen year olds. For an overview of the debate on changes in voting in the United States over...

...in the 1960s began to disrupt such attitudes. After the Selma March, and subsequent police reaction, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed. The Vietnam War and wasteful affluence among some groups in American society while many...

...centered in the New York City public schools and received nationwide attention. Because passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 failed to provide the hoped-for changes in black lives, other avenues for improvement were explored....

...Conference Educational Fund carried forth the former's mission of creating a New South even beyond the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. This book covers the southern conference movement through 1963, but it is important to note that SCEF...

...invoke cloture on civil rights measures, each time without the necessary two-thirds majority.37 After the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were enacted, however, only a 1980 fair housing bill, among several civil rights measures considered,...

...voices had been heard earlier, but the events of the past few years seemed to prove them right. And the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 complicated the question of what to do next. Now that political equality had been won on paper, how...

...even present in the pre-196o Texas political system. The growth of Mexican American interest groups, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Voting Rights Act of 1965 all provided means for political representation for the Latinos in the borderlands region. In turn,...

...DISOBEDIENCE, and to incorporate the support of white liberals. The movement achieved some successes, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965; it became increasingly disunited as some elements extended their claims from liberal demands for formal...

...writer. Among other projects, the commission launched an ambitious campaign to mobilize support for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965. This campaign was especially effective in midwestern states that had many Protestant voters and congressional...