Dwight David Eisenhower9 September 1957
Signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil-rights law enacted since Reconstruction.
United States of America · Government / Republican Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Signs the Civil Rights Act of 1957, the first federal civil-rights law enacted since Reconstruction.
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