Civil Rights Legislation

• Legal change after decades of protest
• NAACP pushed for bussing black youth to schools and integrating them into better areas
• Civil Rights Act 1964?

  Ended segregation in public places

  Banned employment discrimination
• Congress expanded act, passed additional legislation aimed at equality to black Americans, and created the Civil Rights Commission
• Voting Rights Act 1965?

  Banning any attempts to stop votes due to race, provisions were set for 5 years
• Busing?


  Taking away improvements and goodness of desegregated schools

  Sending students to school districts other than their own