An Act to enforce constitutional rights, and for other purposes.
Acronyms (colloquial)
CRA
Enacted by
the 86th United States Congress
Effective
May 6, 1960
Citations
Public law
86-449
Statutes at Large
74 Stat. 86
Codification
Acts amended
Civil Rights Act of 1957
Titles amended
Title 18—Crimes and Criminal Procedure
U.S.C. sections amended
18 U.S.C. ch. 39 § 837
18 U.S.C. ch. 49 § 1074
18 U.S.C. ch. 73 § 1509
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 8601 by Emanuel Celler (D–NY) on March 10, 1960
Committee consideration by House Judiciary
Passed the House on March 24, 1960 (311–109)
Passed the Senate on April 8, 1960 (71–18) with amendment
House agreed to Senate amendment on April 21, 1960 (288–95)
Signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on May 6, 1960
Major amendments
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Civil Rights Act of 1991
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Civil Rights Movement in Washington D.C.
National movement
Journey of Reconciliation
Executive Order 9981
Prayer Pilgrimage
Strom Thurmond filibuster
Civil Rights Act of 1957
1st Youth March
2nd Youth March
Civil Rights Act of 1960
Baldwin–Kennedy meeting
President Kennedy's civil rights address
March on Washington
"I Have a Dream"
24th U.S. Constitutional Amendment
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Civil Rights Act of 1968
Poor People's Campaign
District of Columbia
District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co.
Bolling v. Sharpe
23rd U.S. Constitutional Amendment
The Civil Rights Act of 1960 (Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 86–449, 74 Stat. 89, enacted May 6, 1960) is a United States federal law that established federal inspection of local voter registration polls and introduced penalties for anyone who obstructed someone's attempt to register to vote. It dealt primarily with discriminatory laws and practices in the segregated South, by which African Americans and Mexican-American Texans had been effectively disenfranchised since the late 19th and start of the 20th century. This was the fifth Civil Rights Act to be enacted in United States history. Over an 85-year period, it was preceded only by the Civil Rights Act of 1957, whose shortcomings largely influenced its creation. This law served to more effectively enforce what was set forth in the 1957 act through eliminating certain loopholes in it, and to establish additional provisions. Aside from addressing voting rights, the Civil Rights Act of 1960 also imposed criminal penalties for obstruction of court orders to limit resistance to the Supreme Court's school desegregation decisions,[1] arranged for free education for military members' children, and banned the act of fleeing to avoid prosecution for property damage. The Civil Rights Act of 1960 was signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
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