The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub.L. 88–352, 78 Stat.

You don't need to know too much history to understand that the South from the civil war to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 tended to be opposed to minority rights…

Congress later passed the Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Civil Rights Act, (1964), comprehensive U.S. legislation intended to end discrimination based on race, colour, religion, or national origin. The bill was passed by the 85th United States Congress and signed into law by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on September 9, 1957. The majority of Democrats who opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act were from Southern states; some Democrats in non-Southern states did support the bill.

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The Supreme Court's 1954 ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education brought the issue of school desegregation to the fore of public attention, as Southern leaders began a campaign of "massive resistance" against d Leading the Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans was Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). This is a good example of the old saying “a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.” Shapiro and others in the GOP destruction team are bashing Democrats as a whole for opposing the Civil Rights Act.

241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, and later sexual orientation. That is misleading. On this day in 1964, Everett Dirksen (R-IL), the Republican Leader in the U.S. Senate, condemned the Democrats’ 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Our fact-check sources: ABC interview transcript