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Historic Civil Rights Bill passing the Senate in 1964...
Historic Civil Rights Bill passing the Senate in 1964...
Item # 718618
June 19, 1964
THE DETROIT NEWS, June 19, 1964
* American Civil Rights Act of 1964
* Passes United States Senate (eve)
The top front page has a banner headline on the day of the historic moment during the Civil Rights movement: "OK of Rights Bill Near; Goldwater Voting 'No'" Nice for display. Coverage on the day of the Senate's passage of this historic Civil Rights Act, which would be passed by the House & signed by the President less than two weeks later.
Complete with 40+ pages, small binding holes along the spine, nice condition.
AI notes: On June 19, 1964, after one of the longest and most contentious debates in U.S. Senate history, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by a vote of 73 to 27. The bill had faced a 60-day filibuster led by Southern senators determined to block its passage, reflecting deep national divisions over racial segregation and civil rights. The turning point came on June 10, when the Senate voted 71 to 29 to invoke cloture, successfully ending the filibuster—the first time cloture had ever been used to overcome opposition to civil rights legislation. The Senate's passage followed intense lobbying by civil rights leaders and President Lyndon B. Johnson, who viewed the bill as a moral imperative and a tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy, who had originally proposed the legislation in 1963. The Civil Rights Act of 1964, once signed into law on July 2, became a landmark statute, outlawing discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin, and ending segregation in public places, schools, and employment, fundamentally reshaping American society and advancing the cause of civil rights.
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