1 janv. 1957 - Civil Rights Act of 1957 (Sep 9, 1957)

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The Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought the issue of school desegregation to the fore of public attention, as Southern Democratic leaders began a campaign of "massive resistance" against desegregation. In the midst of this campaign, President Eisenhower proposed a civil rights bill designed to provide federal protection for African American voting rights; most African Americans in the Southern United States had been disenfranchised by state and local laws (Wikipedias).


The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ended an eighty- two year period marked by the absence of federal civil rights legislation. The former legislation consisted of five acts passed in the nine-year period between 1866 and 1875. These acts, passed by the post-Civil War Reconstruction Congress, were intended to
secure a status of equality to the Negro whose freedom from slavery was secured by the Thirteenth Amendment.1 Measured by the standard of achievement of this objective, however, they were a dismal failure (Winquist, 620).

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Winquist, Thomas R. “Civil Rights: Legislation: The Civil Rights Act of 1957.” Michigan Law Review, vol. 56, no. 4, 1958, pp. 619–30. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1286055. Accessed 11 Apr. 2024.

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