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History > USA > Civil rights > Civil Rights Act 2 July 1964
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964, in the East Room of the White House.
At his right shoulder is Senator Hubert H. Humphrey.
Photograph: Associated Press
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Lyndon Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act and gives a pen to Martin Luther King Jr.
Photograph: George Tames The New York Times
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2 July 1964
Civil Rights Act
The bill passed the House of Representatives in mid-February 1964, but became mired in the Senate due to a filibuster by southern senators that lasted 75 days.
When the bill finally passed the Senate, King hailed it as one that would ‘‘bring practical relief to the Negro in the South, and will give the Negro in the North a psychological boost that he sorely needs’’ (King, 19 June 1964).
On 2 July 1964, Johnson signed the new Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law with King and other civil rights leaders present.
The law’s provisions created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to address race and sex discrimination in employment and a Community Relations Service to help local communities solve racial disputes;
authorized federal intervention to ensure the desegregation of schools, parks, swimming pools, and other public facilities; and restricted the use of literacy tests as a requirement for voter registration.
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's benchmark civil rights legislation
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Passage of the Act ended the application of "Jim Crow" laws, which had been upheld by the Supreme Court in the 1896 case in which the Court held that racial segregation purported to be "separate but equal" was constitutional.
The Civil Rights Act was eventually expanded by Congress to strengthen enforcement of these fundamental civil rights. http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/about/history/CivilRightsAct.cfm
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