The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended segregation in public places and banned discrimination in employment by race, color, sex, or religion.
The 24th Amendment abolished poll tax. Ratification of the 24th Amendment is completed on January 23, 1964.
Freedom Summer was a voter registration project in Mississippi that was part of a larger effort by civil rights groups to expand black voting in the South.
Three young civil rights workers, named James Chaney (21), Andrew Goodman (20), and Michael Schwerner (24), were murdered near Philadelphia, in Nashoba County, Mississippi. They had been working to register black voters in Mississippi during Freedom Summer and had gone to investigate the burning of the 16th street Baptist Church. .
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