3:39 p.m. Actor Bryan Cranston reads from LBJ's original address before signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act "This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our cities and our ...

3:39 p.m. Actor Bryan Cranston reads from LBJ's original address before signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act "This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our cities and our ...

1 of 3 | Then-President Lyndon B. Johnson (C) signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as the Rev. Martin Luther, standing behind him, and others watch on July 2, 1964, in the White House.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on this day in history, July 2, 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson. It forbade discrimination in public spaces, among other steps.

Hours after the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the House of Representatives on July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson entered the East Room of the White House. Dressed in a black suit ...

Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as Martin Luther King Jr. looks on. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. You Might Also Like. LBJ Goes for Broke. June 1 ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

The 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act passed during Johnson’s presidency. LBJ in 1967 appointed Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court’s as its first black justice.

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign the Voting Rights ...

3:39 p.m. Actor Bryan Cranston reads from LBJ's original address before signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act "This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our cities and our ...