ROCKFORD - 1965 was a momentous year for the Civil Rights movement. One hundred years after the Civil War ended slavery, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965, banning several practices governments used to suppress the African-American vote.In Rockford, a different movement was launched when, on June 17, 1965, a 22-year-old African-American barber named Melvin Ballard made front-page news by winning the Rockford Cosmopolitan Pro-Am at Macktown in Rockton.The