Civil Rights
Date Submitted: 11/02/2002 09:59:12
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 8 pages (2166 words)
Category: / Law & Government / Government & Politics
Length: 8 pages (2166 words)
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Bush vetoes a civil rights bill that he argued would impose quotas for employers; weaker bill passes muster in 1991.
1991 -- Civil rights museum opens at King assassination site in Memphis.
1994 -- Byron De La Beckwith convicted of 1963 Medgar Evers assassination.
1995 -- Supreme Court rules that federal programs that use race as a categorical classification must have "compelling government interest" to do so.
1996 -- Supreme Court rules consideration of race in creating congressional districts is unconstitutional.
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