Modern Era · North America · Politics
1964
Civil Rights Act signed
July 2, 1964
Lyndon Johnson, who had spent a career as a Southern senator, pushed through the most sweeping civil rights legislation in American history, outlawing segregation in public accommodations and discrimination in employment. He told an aide it would lose the Democrats the South for a generation. He was right, and he signed it anyway.
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