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Civil Rights Act 1957

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Civil Rights Act 1957

US legislation that created the Commission on Civil Rights to investigate civil rights violations, and the Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division to enforce federal civil rights, especially voting rights for southern blacks. This was the first federal civil-rights legislation since Reconstruction.

The act largely failed to curb the disenfranchisement of southern blacks, however, because violators of the act were granted jury trials, and juries were still all-white.



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