The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the  United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or  national origin. It prohibited unequal application of voter registration  requirements, racial ..... Goldwater had supported previous attempts to pass civil  rights legislation in ...
Aug 28, 2013 ... Let's use the 1964 Civil Rights Act as our focal point. ... The bill wouldn't have  passed without the support of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of ...
Apr 10, 2014 ... The 1964 Civil Rights Act revolutionized America, and here are the things ... "It's  really the law that created modern America," said Todd S. ... of the Civil War, 100  years after the war had ended, and to make the .... More Republicans voted in  favor of the Civil Rights Act than ...... "Good to see you," he replied.
Learn about the civil rights legislation that outlawed discrimination in jobs, ...  designed to shift white Southerners to the Republican Party, accelerated this  trend. .... Well no Johnson wouldn't have been able himself to pass the CRL, he  would not ... which had been in the Congress in honor of JFK who had fought for  the Bill.
And then the conservatives on the Court lost their fifth vote. ... Ten days after the  Court's decision, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act and the .... “You know, we  could have beaten John Kennedy on civil rights, but not Lyndon Johnson. ... and  very public campaign to portray “the party of Lincoln” as obstructing civil rights by  ...
The Republican Party "fought very hard in the '60s to get the civil rights bill passed, as well as the voting rights bill."