His work helped push forward milestone legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In his final years, King turned his attention toward economic justice and ...

Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is the last major piece of Reconstruction legislation. It outlaws racial discrimination in public accommodations -- hotels, transportation, opera houses ...

The 1954 Brown v Topeka case was an important turning point in the civil rights movement ... officials were members of the Klan. In 1870 and 1871, the government passed the Enforcement Acts ...