The Civil Rights Movement

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT SEGREGATION Whites in the South were determined to control the South as they had always controlled the South. Although the reconstruction finally ended in the South, laws know as the Jim Crow laws went into effect. These laws were put into effect to keep African Americans from getting jobs and just getting the same rights that other white people received in the South. The Jim Crow laws were a system of legal …

…THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT Johnson knew that merely passing the Act was not enough so he pushed to pass the voting rights act, which would ensure blacks their basic democratic rights. After LBJ addressed the all white congress and stated that "WE SHALL OVERCOME" many senators that supported segregation knew their fight was over. The act passed in 1968, which allowed no discrimination of housing rights and that there be no harassment of civil rights workers.