By Marcus D. Pohlmann, Linda Vallar Whisenhunt
ISBN-10: 0313313857
ISBN-13: 9780313313851
This reference advisor info the main severe civil rights legislation in U.S. heritage, relocating from the interval of slavery, to the Civil conflict, to the Reconstruction, to the civil rights period of the mid- to late-20th century. an outline essay introduces every one interval, and 36 person legislation are tested in essays putting the accounts of their historic contexts. every one legislations is then awarded in an edited and, while applicable, annotated shape, so scholars can learn and comprehend the particular phrases of the legislation.
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Hugh Williamson of North Carolina first proposed the "3/5 compromise," counting slaves as three-fifths of a person both for determining taxes owed and for apportioning national representation. This would leave the South with roughly 46 percent of the congressional representatives and a comparable share of the federal tax burden. The only real opposition came from the Georgia and South Carolina delegates who wanted slaves counted as full individuals for the purpose of state representation in Congress.
President John F. Kennedy's Executive Order 10925 creates the President's Equal Employment Opportunity Committee. 1962 President Kennedy's Executive Order 11053 authorizes the use of federal troops to restore order after riots occur at the University of Mississippi. President Kennedy's Executive Order 11063 prohibits discrimination in housing either loaned or directly financed by the federal government. 1963 Alabama's Governor George Wallace stands defiantly "in the schoolhouse door" to prevent black students from enrolling at the University of Alabama.
They also correctly anticipated that slavery would be allowed south of the Ohio River, as it indeed was by the Southwest Ordinance of 1790. Having declared a prohibition against slavery in the Northwest Territories, however, this law was far from self-implementing in a region whose governmental structures were just taking form. By the 1830 census, for instance, 16,000 blacks were officially residing in the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Michigan. " THE LAW The Northwest Ordinance 1 addressed a myriad of issues related to the governance of this newly acquired region.