Judy Dodge Cummings
Author
Publisher
Nomad Press, a division of Nomad Communications
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Changing Laws: Politics of the Civil Rights Era invites middle graders to explore the key legislative and judicial victories of the Civil Rights era, including Brown v. the Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. Plus, as racial tensions ripped the country apart, presidents from Eisenhower through Nixon worked to uphold the U.S. Constitution, sometimes willingly and sometimes...