The House of Representatives and the Senate, both under Democratic control at the time, passed President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s proposed civil rights bill that established the Department of Civil Rights in the US Department of Justice. It empowers the US attorney general to take action when state officials attempt to obstruct voting.
[Pictured: President Eisenhower poses in the White House with civil rights leaders following their conference on June 23, 1958.]
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