Which individual members of Congress from former Confederate states voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (full roll call)?
Executive summary
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 cleared Congress after hard-fought votes in the Senate (73–27) and the House (roughly 289–126), overcoming a Southern-led filibuster in the Senate and significant regional opposition in the House [1] [2]. The complete, individual roll-call records—needed to identify which specific members from the 11 former Confederate states voted for the bill—are preserved in archival roll-call tallies and congressional vote databases, which must be consulted to produce a definitive list [1] [3].
1. What the question is actually asking and what the sources can deliver
The user seeks the names of individual members of Congress from the 11 former Confederate states who cast yea votes on the Civil Rights Act of 1964; answering requires consulting the full roll-call records for both chambers because regional totals alone cannot identify individual voters, and the provided material includes official roll-call tallies and vote pages but does not reproduce a named-by-state list in the supplied excerpts [1] [3] [2].
2. How Congress voted overall and why that matters to the state-level tally
The Senate vote to pass the Act was 73 in favor and 27 against, after Senate leaders broke a prolonged filibuster, and the House approved the amended bill later with roughly 289–126 in favor—majorities in both chambers sufficient to enact the law [1] [2]. Those chamber-wide margins show bipartisan support was decisive, but regional dynamics mattered: Southern Democrats mounted the filibuster and provided much of the opposition, meaning that any supporters from former Confederate states were exceptions whose identification requires the full roll calls [4] [5].
3. Where to find the authoritative, named roll-call and why it’s authoritative
The National Archives preserves the official June 19, 1964 Senate roll-call tally and the House roll-call on July 2, 1964; those archival documents are the primary sources for individual votes and include the names and how each senator and representative voted [1]. Contemporary congressional vote trackers such as GovTrack also host detailed roll-call pages for HR 7152 that list individual members’ votes and metadata about paired or not-voting entries; these are practicable, citable resources for compiling a state-by-state list [3].
4. Why some modern summaries can mislead and how to avoid that pitfall
Secondary summaries emphasize party percentages—often noting that a larger percentage of Republicans voted yea than Democrats—but those figures can obscure the key geographic split (Northern and Western Republicans versus Southern Democrats) and lead to overgeneralizations about party responsibility; careful work must return to the named roll calls to isolate which members from the 11 former Confederate states crossed party or regional lines [2] [6]. Fact‑checks and historical surveys echo this caution: the filibuster and the alignment of leaders like Humphrey and Dirksen were decisive and complicate simple partisan narratives [5] [7].
5. Practical next step for a definitive list and limits of current reporting
To produce a full, verifiable list of individual members from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia who voted for the Act, consult the National Archives’ Senate and House roll-call documents and the GovTrack vote pages for HR 7152; those primary records contain the named votes by chamber and can be sorted by state to answer the question directly [1] [3]. The sources supplied in this briefing confirm the existence and outcome of the roll calls and provide contextual narrative, but they do not, in the provided excerpts, enumerate the specific names by state—so this report stops short of a named roster only because those names were not reproduced in the excerpts supplied [1] [3] [2].