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Congressional Action on Civil Rights Legislation: 1901-1960

For poll tax repeal calendar 1939-1949, see vol. III, pp. ccxlviii-ccli.

For FEPC struggle, see vol. III, pp. ccliv-ccxc

For Jim Crow Travel, see vol. III, pp. ccxlvi-ccxiii.

1901

December 1901 – Two Massachusetts Republicans, Sen. George Frisbie Hoar and Rep. William H. Moody introduce an anti-lynching bill designed by Albert E. Pillsbury, a prominent Bostonian and former...

In Their Own Words on Civil Rights: By Presidents, Congress...

Setting the Stage[1]

Abraham Lincoln

            Upon debating with Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, on September 18, 1858 – “I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not, nor ever have been, in...