Elisa Gee
Wanting to overcome liberal doubts, Johnson needed to be able to achieve the passage of Kennedy's civil rights bill without compromising any important elements. The bill passed the house in 1964, but had problems in Senate. Southerners in senate used a filibuster, meaning they debated the bill nonstop to prevent it from coming to a vote. Eventually, on June 2, 1964, Johnson signed the bill into law.
John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the US who first proposed the Civil Rights Act.
Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th president of the US, he signed the Civil Rights Act into law.
The Civil Rights Act made discrimination cases the job of the federal government.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist group who emerged to suppress and victimize freed slaves.
Martin Luther King, Jr., an influential leader in the Civil rights movement. Along with others like A. Philip Randolph a civil rights leader, Rosa Parks an African American woman who refused to give up her seat in a bus to a white man, Thurgood Marshall a prominent civil rights lawyer, and Jim Clark a civil rights antagonist.
Thurgood Marshall was a prominent civil rights lawyer who presided over landmark cases such as Brown v. Board of Education
What did southerners in senate use to prevent the bill from coming to a vote?
Which person was a prominent civil rights lawyer who lead cases such as Brown v. Board of Education?
What do you think had a large impact on the Civil Rights Act and how has it affected society today?
After years of fighting for civil rights, Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law and met the demands of civil rights activists. Businesses, schools, restaurants, etc. were no longer allowed to be racially segregated.