Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil Rights. Show all posts

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Civil Rights Act signed into law


July 2 – President Lyndon B Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law, abolishing racial segregation in the United States of America. It was the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction.

Great Train Robbers Sentenced

Ronnie Biggs, Buckingham Constabulary, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons As noted elsewhere, on August 8, 1963, a gang stopped the Glasgo...