Significant Pieces of the Civil Rights Legislation

What were the significant pieces of civil rights legislation?
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In the 1960s, essential civil rights activities took place in the America and they helped in the positioning of the civil rights movement for greater recognition. It is also important to note that these activities also helped directly or indirectly in passing key legislation. Some of the most common civil rights activities included the sit-ins, the freedom rides and match on Washington among others. This paper examines the Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act (1965) as some of the essential pieces of civil rights legislation.
The Brown v. Board of Education (1954) was a major Supreme Court case of the twentieth century in where the judges unanimously held that racial segregation of public school was unconstitutional. Chief Justice Earl Warren announced that racial discrimination violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteen Amendment. It is also crucial to understand that the court declared that the separate educational facilities were also inherently unequal and therefore unlawful. Most importantly, the principle of “separate but equal” which had been declared by the Supreme Court in 1896 was also considered unconstitutional.[The American Yawp Reader, 1954. "Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka." Accessed February 26, 2019.] [The American Ya...