User:Mitchumch/Congress during the Civil Rights Movement

See also

• Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Civil Rights Act of 1957
• Civil Rights Act of 1960
• Civil Rights Act of 1964
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Civil Rights Act of 1968 (or Open Housing Law of 1968)
• Richard Russell, Jr.

Committee and floor actions

(See Revolution In Civil Right by the Congressional Quarterly for section "Chronology Of Legislation On Civil Rights")

Further reading

General

• Zietlow, Rebecca E. (2006). Enforcing Equality: Congress, the Constitution, and the Protection of Individual Rights. New York: New York University Press. ISBN 9780814797075.

Senators

• Asch, Chris Myers (2011). The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 9780807878057.
• Finley, Keith M. (2008). Delaying the Dream: Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965. Baton Rouge, Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 9780807133453.

Civil Rights Act of 1964

• Loevy, Robert D. (1997). The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law That Ended Racial Segregation. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. ISBN 9780791433614.

External links

• Office of the Historian; Office of Art & Archives, Office of the Clerk. "Constitutional Amendments and Major Civil Rights Acts of Congress Referenced in Black Americans in Congress". Black Americans in Congress. Retrieved 24 August 2015.