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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Celebrating July 2, America's other Independence Day"
Fifty-nine years ago today, legal apartheid in America came to an abrupt end. President Lyndon Johnson addressed the nation from the East Room of the White House:
"I am about to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Let us close the springs of racial poison."
Afterward, ours was a changed nation, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. The back of Jim Crow, with its false promise of "separate but equal" public accommodations, was broken, as America fulfilled its most sacred ideal: "All men are created equal."
Since then, the Civil Rights Act has become as fundamental to our national identity as any of our founding documents, deeply rooted in the fabric of a nation that strives to be "more perfect" and to move ever forward.
"I am about to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . Let us close the springs of racial poison."
Afterward, ours was a changed nation, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. The back of Jim Crow, with its false promise of "separate but equal" public accommodations, was broken, as America fulfilled its most sacred ideal: "All men are created equal."
Since then, the Civil Rights Act has become as fundamental to our national identity as any of our founding documents, deeply rooted in the fabric of a nation that strives to be "more perfect" and to move ever forward.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/celebrating-july-2-americas-other-independence-day/
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"Celebrating July 2, America's other Independence Day" (Original Post)
GPV
Jul 2023
OP
Give the Court a chance and they will declare the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional.
sanatanadharma
Jul 2023
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Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)1. The Subversive 6 are out to implement Jim Crow 2.0.
GPV
(73,378 posts)2. They sure are.
sanatanadharma
(4,082 posts)3. Give the Court a chance and they will declare the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional.
Give the Court a chance and they will declare the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional.
