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American politician (1896–1969)
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed by the United States Congress — a bipartisan coalition of both Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate — and was signed into law by Democratic Preside...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed with clear support in Congress: substantial majorities of both Democrats and Republicans voted for it, and President Lyndon B. Johnson, a Democrat, signed it into l...
In the 1950s and 1960s, party labels did not map neatly onto support or opposition to civil rights: , while a coalition of Northern Democrats and a significant bloc of Republicans provided essential v...
A small minority of Republicans voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964: six Republican senators voted “nay” in the Senate cloture/final passage votes, and a minority of House Republicans opposed t...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964, amid a bruising congressional fight and national debate, yet its passage did not prevent Lyndon B. Johnson from winning the presidenti...
President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964, and used his presidential authority, rhetorical platform, and legislative skills to push the bill—originally proposed ...
Conservative commentary about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has never been monolithic: contemporaneous conservative opposition often framed the law as federal overreach into private life, while other c...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was sponsored and driven through Congress primarily by Democratic leaders—most notably House Democrat Emanuel Celler in the House and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield...
The House passed H.R. 7152 on February 10, 1964; the Senate after a 72‑day fight, including a filibuster, approved its amended version on June 19 by 73–27 and the House then accepted the Senate amendm...
The claim asks which Southern Democrats voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964; the sourced analyses show that a small number of Southern Democrats broke with much of their regional delegation to supp...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 both exposed and accelerated a realignment within the Republican Party: while a decisive contingent of Republicans voted to pass the law and party elites like Senator Ever...