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In reply to the discussion: THREE MINUTES OF TERROR For The Koch Brothers As Bernie Sanders Storms Sunday Show [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)also signed the Civil Rights Act. It was the Civil Rights Act that really caused problems for Democrats. Still does in the South.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark piece of civil rights legislation in the United States[5] that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.[6] It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools, at the workplace and by facilities that served the general public (known as "public accommodations" .
Powers given to enforce the act were initially weak, but were supplemented during later years. Congress asserted its authority to legislate under several different parts of the United States Constitution, principally its power to regulate interstate commerce under Article One (section 8), its duty to guarantee all citizens equal protection of the laws under the Fourteenth Amendment and its duty to protect voting rights under the Fifteenth Amendment. The Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, at the White House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
As we all know, race is still the big hurdle to rational government and rational voting in the South and even in some other parts of the country. We have a long way to go in some parts of the country in dealing with the race issue. It's way past time that people leave racism behind. But the truth is that we still have to deal with that ugly problem.