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This two-page segment of a larger PBS site about Jim Crow discusses the role of Congress over close to 100 years in first entrenching Jim Crow laws in the law of the land, and eventually, through the Civil Rights Act of 1965 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ending the legal practice of Jime Crow.
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filibuster, white supremacy, civil rights act of 1957, civil rights act of 1964, civil rights movement, commission on civil rights, compromise of 1877, jim crow, president eisenhower, senator hubert humphrey, senator lyndon b. johnson, senator strom thurmond, southern democrats, struggle for voting rights, thirteen, voting rights act of 1965, disfranchisement of african americans, nullification of the civil rights act in 1883