The Civil Rights Act – Today In Southern History
11 April 1968
On this date in 1968…
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of housing.
Other Years:
1862 – Fort Pulaski, Georgia near the mouth of the Savannah River fell to federal troops.
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered his final public address outside the White House calling for limited Black suffrage for educated black union veterans.
1881 – Spelman College was founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary for black women.
1951 - President Harry S. Truman relieved Gen. Douglass MacArthur of command in Korea.
1970 – The ill-fated Apollo 13 moon mission launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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