On May 6, 1960, President Eisenhower signed another civil rights act designed to strengthen the 1957 one. Among other things, it removed the two-year limit of the Commission on Civil Rights and established penalties for people interfering with someone’s attempt to register to vote. But this was still not enough. The unrelenting pressure of the Civil Rights Movement, however, meant that America’s weak response to disenfranchisement would not go unchallenged. In Alabama’s Marion, Lowndes, and Dallas Counties, years of nonviolent protest led to a cinematic explosion on Sunday, March 7, 1965, on
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