On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed on July 2, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson spoke to the nation before signing the Act.

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EDITOR’S NOTE: Lonnie G. Bunch III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. During the 1960s, our family road ...

Two men watch as some 2,000 desegregation marchers pass on their way to the Houston School District Administration building in downtown Houston on May 10, 1965. On this date 60 years ago, President ...

Dr. Russ Wigginton is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 60 years ago on July 2, America has experienced great strides toward attaining ...

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Most readers are familiar with the 1964 Civil Rights Act. They are less familiar with the 1957 Civil Rights Act.

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...