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Understanding our Community & our Civil Rights History • TheMovementafterGloriaRichardson
– Follows the national narrative
• 1963 March on Washington
• Civil Rights Act of 1964 – banning discrimination
• Voting Rights Act of 1965
• Federal Housing eases the need for housing
• Manufacturing jobs slowly come to Cambridge
• Signs of desegregation, but tension is still at an all time high
• Pine St. continues to be the economic hub for the African Americans in Cambridge
• Entertainment and nightlife on Pine St. thriving and showing signs of growth and development
