<P> In the summer of 1963, various parts of the civil rights movement collaborated to run voter education and voter registration drives in Mississippi . During Freedom Summer in 1964, hundreds of students from the North went there to participate in voter drives and community organizing . The media coverage and violent backlash, with the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner near Philadelphia, Mississippi, contributed to national support for civil rights legislation . </P> <P> After Kennedy's assassination, President Lyndon B. Johnson helped secure passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, making racial discrimination and segregation illegal, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which abolished the poll tax and other means of keeping blacks and poor people from registering to vote and voting, established record - keeping and oversight, and provided for federal enforcement in areas with documented patterns of discrimination . </P> <Ol> <Li> Jump up ^ McNeese, Tim (2008). The Civil Rights Movement: Striving for Justice . New York: Infobase Publishing . </Li> <Li> ^ Jump up to: James A. Miller, "An inside look at Eisenhower's civil rights record", The Boston Globe at boston.com, 21 November 2007, accessed 28 October 2011 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Senate.gov web site </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ HR 6127 . CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957 . PASSED . YEA SUPPORTS PRESIDENT'S POSITION . http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ HR. 6127 . CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957 . PASSED . http://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/s75 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Caro, Robert, Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Chapter 39 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Caro, Robert (2002). Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson . New York: Knopf . ISBN 0 - 394 - 52836 - 0 . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/Thurmond_filibuster_1957.pdf </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Nichols, David . A. (2007). A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution . New York: Simon & Schuster . ISBN 9781416541509 . OCLC 123968070 . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Civil Rights Act of 1960 </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ "Transcript from the JFK library". the JFK library . 1963 - 06 - 11 . Archived from the original on 2007 - 02 - 05 . Retrieved 2011 - 10 - 28 . </Li> <Li> Jump up ^ Civil Rights Act of 1964 </Li> </Ol> <Li> Jump up ^ McNeese, Tim (2008). The Civil Rights Movement: Striving for Justice . New York: Infobase Publishing . </Li>

Who introduced the civil rights act of 1957