No personal checks will be accepted. Since the 1960s most US history has been written as if the civil rights movement was primarily or entirely a southern history.Of course this is incorrect. My journey began in 1967 as a staff lawyer at the New York Civil Liberties Union. It is empowered to sue and be sued, and it is the local government for the territory constituting the permanent seat of the federal government. The following decisions show how the high court has wrestled with some of history's biggest social, legal, and political issues. The Warren Court made further pro-civil rights rulings in cases such as Browder v. Gayle (1956) and Loving v. After years of direct actions and grassroots protests, the movement made its largest legislative and judicial gains during the 1960s. My journey began in 1967 as a staff lawyer at the New York Civil Liberties Union.