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spazzmann

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Thu Aug 29, 2013, 09:06 AM Aug 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on August 29, 1957

The U.S. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, the first such law since reconstruction. The bill established a Civil Rights Commission which was given the authority to investigate discriminatory conditions. A Civil Rights Division was created in the Department of Justice...http://bit.ly/15ArgbG


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