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Battles/wars. World War II. Albert Arnold Gore Sr. (December 26, 1907 – December 5, 1998) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1953 to 1971. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative from the state's 4th congressional district from 1939 to 1953.
Letter on Civil Rights, 1964 Creator: Gore, Albert, 1907-1998 Date of Original: 1964-01-31 Collection: Albert Gore Sr. Senate Collection Contributing Institution: Albert Gore Research Center (Murfreesboro, Tenn.)
Mar 1, 2020 · He refused to sign the Southern Manifesto and voted in favor of the 1957 and 1960 Civil Rights Acts. But Gore's “style of racial moderation” became more difficult to sustain in later years (p. 141). He voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, another reelection year for Gore, but then supported the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
- J. Douglas Smith
- 2020
In Tennessee, multiple cities served as political battlegrounds, showing the diversity of opinions Tennesseans held toward civil rights reform. Particularly in the years 1964 and 1965, the pinnacle of the South’s struggle to maintain ‘traditional’ ideas of African American oppression came to a head, with Senator Albert Gore Sr. caught in ...
Albert Gore is perhaps best-remembered by Tennesseeans for his stand on Civil Rights. His refusal to sign the Southern Manifesto and his support of almost all the Civil Rights acts during his tenure angered and alienated many Tennesseeans and Southerners in this period of massive resistance. Gore was a self-styled southern
Oct 29, 2017 · The subjects that prompted many of the letters were the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the 1965 law that ended national origin quotas for immigration; the creation of the Medicare program in 1965; the ...
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Oct 8, 2017 · Gore also supported the early civil rights bills that set goals and policies but took later legal mechanisms to ensure compliance. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 possessed significant enforcement and compliance measures, but Gore questioned whether the bill embraced excessive federal involvement and enforcement.
