Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. NPR has produced an in-depth online report about the act and what it means to the country.
Since then, the country’s demographics have shifted, and the conversations about race and culture have continued. In this project, journalists, lawyers and civil rights activists explore the historic legislation— pulling the language out of history and telling us how it’s relevant today.
"The Voices of Freedom Summer"
Throughout June, KERA News featured North Texans who reflected on the Civil Rights Act and Freedom Summer, an effort 50 years ago to get blacks registered to vote in Mississippi. “It’s painful because I have some friends in the graveyard for the right to vote,” Rev. Peter Johnson of Dallas told KERA.
"Freedom Summer"
Last month, KERA aired the documentary “Freedom Summer.” Watch it below.
