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2 days ago · Jordan assumed leadership of the National Urban League at a crucial moment in history, after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, and the Fair Housing Act. The broad, legal goals of the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement had been achieved.
3 days ago · When Vernon Jordan took over the helm in 1971, the nation had passed the Fair Housing Act only three years earlier. The effects of legal segregation, of legal barriers to the accumulation of wealth through homeownership, affected every aspect of African-American life.
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3 days ago · Gen. Powell was a consistent and generous contributor to the National Urban League for many years, inspired by his admiration for Whitney M. Young – who led the League through the turbulent years of the Civil Rights Movement – and his close friendship with Vernon Jordan, who left the League to serve alongside Powell in President Reagan’s ...
4 days ago · The civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s set the stage for the real work of equality in jobs, education, politics, and the military. Looking back, it’s clear now that the real work of winning equal treatment began after the legislative victories once thought to signal the movement’s denouement.
5 days ago · The event inspired the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the first mass protest of the Civil Rights Movement. In turn, the Montgomery protest became the spark that lit countless torches throughout the South and beyond during the 1950s and 1960s.
- Monica Cammack
- 2020
5 days ago · With passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the civil rights movement saw many of its goals embodied in federal law. This infographic provides maps and a timeline of events associated with the Selma March, which occurred March 21–25, 1965, and was a landmark event of the American civil rights movement.
3 days ago · The efforts of Murray and other activists were successful: the Civil Rights Act of 1964 banned employment discrimination against women. Historically, Women's Rights and Civil Rights Have Been Parallel and Interrelated Movements
