What was the aftermath of the civil rights movement?

But while almost every middle and high school student learns about the Civil Rights Movement, they rarely learn about this march—or the related struggles that continued long after the Voting Rights Act. Most U.S. read more

Summary of the impact of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975. read more

The movement forced Congress to take action, which it did through the 1964 Civil Rights Act. This law made it illegal to separate people based on race, color or national origin in almost all areas of public life. Emphasis on Diversity. Prior to the civil rights movement, the nation discriminated against immigrants from certain areas of the world. read more

Civil rights activist Sam Mahone ( b. 1945) remembers testing the Civil Rights Act at a restaurant in Albany, Georgia, the day after it passed in an interview conducted by Hasan Kwame Jeffries (b. 1973) for the Civil Rights History Project in 2013. read more