The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on this day in history, July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It forbade discrimination in public spaces, among other steps.
Lyndon Johnson accepts the nomination to be the Democratic candidate for the 1964 presidential election.signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law on this day in history, July 2, 1964 —"the most sweeping civil rights legislation since Reconstruction," as the National Archives notes on its website.
That request from Kennedy eventually would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964, although he would not get to see it. After Johnson was sworn in as president, he began working on making Kennedy's dream a reality. The law faced many obstacles in both houses of Congress, said the National Archives. The House of Representatives passed H.R. 7152 on Feb. 10, 1964, sending the bill to the Senate, said the website of the United States Senate.
"Mansfield moved to take up the measure on March 9 and it became the Senate's pending business on March 26, prompting southern senators to launch a filibuster," the Senate website notes.on the bill lasted until June 10, 1964, when cloture was invoked. This came after an impressive amount of bipartisanship.
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