First , there was “bloody Sunday” and “turnaround Tuesday,” then there was a rally in Boston in 1965 over housing ...

President Lyndon ... Johnson signed the 24th Amendment abolishing poll taxes in 1964, saying, “There can now be no one too poor to vote. There is no longer a tax on his rights. The only enemy to ...

A majority of the lawyers at the Civil Rights ... Johnson pushed through in the 1960s, including the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965.

Boston celebrates the 60 year anniversary of 1965 Freedom ... after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and months ahead of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of ...

1965, one day before the ‘’Bloody Sunday’’ march that paved the way for the Voting Rights Act. His group was met by a hostile mob and a deputy sheriff, who read a telegram from the ...

The Boston rally happened after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and months ahead of the enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed in August. King and other ...