New black leaders, new challenges | CommunityPress.com | cincinnati.com: "Two goals stood out for African-American leadership generations ago:
End racial segregation in schools and other public places, such as restaurants and stores. And make illegal the poll taxes that forced many blacks to pay to vote in some areas of the country. Those objectives were met with passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
• Meet the emerging leaders
• Photos: 20 other emerging leaders"
End racial segregation in schools and other public places, such as restaurants and stores. And make illegal the poll taxes that forced many blacks to pay to vote in some areas of the country. Those objectives were met with passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
• Meet the emerging leaders
• Photos: 20 other emerging leaders"
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