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==Post 1960==
==Post 1960==
[[File:Bill-clinton-orval-faubus-1991.jpg|right|150px|thumb|Bill Clinton with [[Orval Faubus]].<ref>http://articles.latimes.com/1992-09-15/news/vw-739_1_orval-faubus</ref>]]
After 1945, the Civil Rights movement gained momentum and used federal courts to attack Jim Crow. The Supreme Court declared legal, or ''de jure'', public school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, and it ended in practice in the 1970s.<ref>Michael J. Klarman, ''From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality'' (2006)</ref> The court ruling did not stop ''de facto'' or informal school segregation, which continued in large cities. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], building a coalition of liberal northern Democrats and conservative Northern Republicans, pushed Congress to pass the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] which used the [[Commerce Clause]] to end Jim Crow laws that segregated restaurants, hotels and theatres; these facilities (with rare exceptions) immediately dropped racial segregation.<ref name="Short History"/> In 1965 the federal [[Voting Rights Act]] ended discrimination in voting for all federal, state and local elections.
After 1945, the Civil Rights movement gained momentum and used federal courts to attack Jim Crow. The Supreme Court declared legal, or ''de jure'', public school segregation unconstitutional in 1954, and it ended in practice in the 1970s.<ref>Michael J. Klarman, ''From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality'' (2006)</ref> The court ruling did not stop ''de facto'' or informal school segregation, which continued in large cities. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]], building a coalition of liberal northern Democrats and conservative Northern Republicans, pushed Congress to pass the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] which used the [[Commerce Clause]] to end Jim Crow laws that segregated restaurants, hotels and theatres; these facilities (with rare exceptions) immediately dropped racial segregation.<ref name="Short History"/> In 1965 the federal [[Voting Rights Act]] ended discrimination in voting for all federal, state and local elections.