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a 1954 landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws supporting segregation of public schools unconstitutional. The decision overturned the Plessy v. Ferguson decision of 1896

written and signed in 1956, in resistance to the Supreme Court Case, Brown v Board of Education, which ruled it unconstitutional to segregate schools.

A federal program established in 1965 to provide hospital and medical services to older people through the Social Security system.

a program whose purpose is to provide payment for a range of medical services for persons with low income and resources.

Passed under the Johnson administration, this act outlawed segregation in public areas and granted the federal government power to fight black disfranchisement.

Outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting.

an 11-member commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States.

A series of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of predominantly African American neighbourhoods of South-Central Los Angeles that began August 11, 1965, and lasted for six days.

a situation in which legislation did not overtly segregate students by race, but nevertheless school segregation continued.

The name for legislation first introduced by United States President Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964.