On this day in 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House.
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In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides for the African-American civil rights movement, as non-violent demonstrations won thousands of supporters to the cause. Memorable landmarks in the struggle included the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955–sparked by the refusal of Alabama resident Rosa Parks to give up her seat on a city bus to a white woman–and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I have a dream” speech at a rally of hundreds of thousands in Washington, D.C., in 1963.
As the strength of the civil rights movement grew, John F. Kennedy made passage of a new civil rights bill one of the platforms of his successful 1960 presidential campaign. As Kennedy’s vice president, Johnson served as chairman of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunities. After Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, Johnson vowed to carry out his proposals for civil rights reform.
The Civil Rights Act fought tough opposition in the House and a lengthy, heated debate in the Senate before being approved in July 1964. For the signing of the historic legislation, Johnson invited hundreds of guests to a televised ceremony in the White House’s East Room. After using more than 75 pens to sign the bill, he gave them away as mementoes of the historic occasion, according to tradition. One of the first pens went to King, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), who called it one of his most cherished possessions. Johnson gave two more to Senators Hubert Humphrey and Everett McKinley Dirksen, the Democratic and Republican managers of the bill in the Senate.
The most sweeping civil rights legislation passed by Congress since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, the Civil Rights Act prohibited racial discrimination in employment and education and outlawed racial segregation in public places such as schools, buses, parks and swimming pools. In addition, the bill laid important groundwork for a number of other pieces of legislation–including the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which set strict rules for protecting the right of African Americans to vote–that have since been used to enforce equal rights for women as well as all minorities.
May he be rotting in Hell. He was a murdering, corrupt, calculating, immoral and vulgar POS. He either played a role in the killing of JFK or gloried in it. He had a homicidal lunatic named Malcolm Wallace kill off anyone who stood in his way. He fixed elections. He screwed the wives of associates. As commander in chief he did all he could to kill off the USS Liberty sailors. And, of course, he killed millions of innocent people in Vietnam including thousands of American GI’s.
Think of that the next time they play ‘Hail to the Chief’ and expect you to stand in honor.
Just the facts, Rider. Nothing but the facts! You’ll probably get some more downwards, but not from me. Johnson may or may not have been the worst President in US history (I personally think Boy George and Obama were worse, but that’s just my opinion) but it is much easier to argue that Lyndon Baines Johnson was the most despicable and corrupt president in history (though Grant scholars may beg to differ). Everything you said about him is not only true but backed by facts.
No doubt Ro. These allegations are not disputed even by his apologists like the despicable and 2 faced Bill Moyers. So why do you suppose the thumb down (I generally like and try to earn them). My guess is that I challenged someone’s perception that we need to exalt the president and cower with ingratitude for being in his presence. Not me. I always loved that Iraqi dude who pitched his shoe at W. Now THAT’S a patriot!
He also picked his dogs up by their ears.
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Cruelty is the surest sign of a bad character.
Look around and see how much good integration has done for both races. Take a leisurely stroll through any big city, then praise LBJ. See what actually resulted from integration and compare it to what was intended. Are we as a whole better off as a nation? Are blacks better off? I think any rational observer would say not. LBJ was one sorry sob who would have sold his mother for 10 votes.
Paraphrased because I’m too lazy to look for the actual LBJ quote… “We’ll have them niggers voting democrat for the next 200 years.”
That part seems to be working pretty well.
This is rich, “Alabama resident Rosa Parks…”
Like she just happened to refuse to move to the back of the bus. She was a plant intended to spark the protests that followed. There’s a pretty good reason my father and uncles firmly believed in segregation. You need look no further the destruction of almost every large city by blacks.
Here in the Detroit area we are always told that Rosa Parks was a Detroiter and it was a white man she wouldn’t give up her seat for. Oh well, who cares about the facts, anyway. It’s the narrative. The cause that matters; Poor black woman refuses to give up her seat to a white rider, sparking outrage, protest and equal rights for all!!! Doesn’t that sound better than reporting the actual facts? Facts just get in the way and can become such a nuisance, a downer, and a spoiler to all that is FREEDOM, DEMOCRATIC AND AMERICAN!!
Want to talk about Michael King (aka Martin Luther King)?Lots of narrative and “history” about the only civilian in US history to have a day honored for him (Columbus was not a US citizen and is hardly “honored”). Here’s just one of many actual facts about the Hon. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr that History.com will never write about: He plagiarized his thesis at Boston University. What? Is this just the rantings of a lunatic racist? Nope. An actual fact that Boston University has admitted to but refuses to pursue. Why? They themselves admit it would tarnish the legacy of such a GREAT PATRIOTIC AND BELOVED AMERICAN. Talk about spoiling a narrative! Of course, the real reason Boston University will never pursue this is because of historical, ethical and factual cowardice. That and they don’t want their college burned to the ground.
Have one or two of Caro’s 4 cards, 5th pending, on this stud (cheap pine 2×4). Haven’t read tho. All these people are scumbags. Life is short. How much time do I want to spend assaying the details of this that the other’s scumbaggery? Less & less.
As for segregation\desegregation, neither matters. It is the forcing of either that is problematic. But it is also that force field that gins up all the various & sundry liquidity – blood money – that grafters can draft behind, suck off of. For every Prefontaine there are 10,000 drafters.
Damn, son. Put down the bong & move away from the keyboard.
Got a good laugh out of that, Miles! I thought maybe it was just me. Lol
It is just you. & just him. Robert Caro, 4 volumes down, 1 left to go, about Johnson, a man who knew it’s just you. & him. & how to roll the youse up. Gun bribes. Butter bribes. Done.
And it spelled the end of property rights in this country once and for all.
Worst law in American history – or worst law in world history?