Civil Rights Act of 1964 (thing) by goneaway

The most comprehensive piece of anti-discrimination legislature that the United States has ever come up with.

It was first proposed by John F. Kennedy in 1963 but he was unable to get it through Congress (one of the problems Kennedy was plagued with throughout his short time as president.) Lyndon Johnson finally pushed it through into law in 1964.

What It Says

Title 1 guarantees equal voting rights and makes discriminatory requirements like literacy tests illegal.
Title 2 makes it illegal to segregate public accomodations in any place associated with interstate commerce. This was one of the victories of the Freedom Rides.
Title 4 called for school desegregation.

The act was immediately protested by segregationalists in the South and led to a wave of violence and broader support for pro-segregation politicians.

The idiot free zone	Voting Rights Act of 1965	Filibuster	Roots of the Civil Rights Movement
Fair Labor Standards Act	Interesting story involving Jolt Cola and the Magna Carta	Strom Thurmond	racism
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke	Coleman report	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Bill of Rights
returning board	Grutter v. Bollinger	Protest Songs and Social Movements	Baker v. Carr
Great Society	comprehensive	George Wallace	Robert Kennedy
John F. Kennedy	March 20, 2010	tl;dr	Fannie Lou Hamer