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I'd been thinking on this recently -- if 1957 got a stronger Civil Rights Bill,* with say stronger enforcement on voting rights violations (closer to AG Brownell's original bill in this respect), how would that affect the subsequent Civil Rights Movement? Would it just move everything up -- the desegregation and employment rights of OTL's 1964 CRA getting passed in 1961, for example?

Would that extend to other milestones, like the March for Equality and Freedom? Actually, this event alone in TTL is interesting to think about -- if Civil Rights Leaders have more to show sooner, does that mean they're less likely to do the march? Or does it make the next step just expected sooner, leading to the march coming earlier? For that matter, how important is the timing of the march in the election cycle -- would it be less effective, for example, in 1961, less than a year after the last Presidential Election?

Any thoughts here?

*while I remember it's a contended point, let's see if we can put it aside for now
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