... . Another major act of the 1900s was the Hepburn Act of 1906 which increased the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission over railroads and other specific types of carriers, the law strengthened the Elkins Act of 1903, that dealt with personal discrimination, This all lead to reforms at the local level such as banning child labor, minimum wage and maximum amount ... strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day. They called for federal anti-lynching laws and coordinated a series of challenges to state-sponsored segregation in public schools, an effor...

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