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…showed last 75 words of 2166 total…Bush vetoes a civil rights bill that he argued would impose quotas for employers; weaker bill passes muster in 1991. 1991 -- Civil rights museum opens at King assassination site in Memphis. 1994 -- Byron De La Beckwith convicted of 1963 Medgar Evers assassination. 1995 -- Supreme Court rules that federal programs that use race as a categorical classification must have "compelling government interest" to do so. 1996 -- Supreme Court rules consideration of race in creating congressional districts is unconstitutional.