Thursday, July 2, 1964: Civil Rights Act of 1964

The civil rights bill, called America's commitment to justice and equality for all citizens, completed its Congressional journey Thursday and was signed by President Johnson into the law of the land.
     -- United Press International

     -- Associated Press story: @

     -- New York Times story: @

     -- UPI story, July 3: @

* Complete document (National Archives): @

* Text (www.ourdocuments.gov): @
* President Johnson's remarks (transcript and video; from Miller Center): @

* "Teaching With Documents: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission" (National Archives): @
* "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: What's in it ... How you can use it to obtain the Rights it guarantees" (Leadership Conference on Civil Rights): @
* "July 2, 1964" (The Civil Rights Documentation Project 1964, The Dirksen Congressional Center): @

* "The Civil Rights Act of 1964" (Google Cultural Institute): @

* Summary (U.S. Commission on Civil Rights): @ 
* Summary (from "Encyclopedia of the United States Congress," 2007): @

* "A Deeper Look at the Politicians Who Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (Smithsonian magazine, 2014): @
* Newsreel: @
* "Major Features of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (www.congresslink.org; includes overview): @

* Chronology (www.senate.gov; includes links to overview): @
* "Title VII: A Legislative History" (Francis J. Vaas, Boston College Law Review, 1966): @
* "The Civil Rights Act of 1964: The Passage of the Law That Ended Racial Segregation" (Robert D. Loevy, 1997): @
* "When Freedom Would Triumph: The Civil Rights Struggle in Congress, 1954-1968" (Robert Mann, 2007): @
* "An Idea Whose Time Has Come" (Todd S. Purdum, 2014): @
* "The Bill of the Century" (Clay Risen, 2014): @
* "How LBJ Saved the Civil Rights Act" (Michael O'Donnell, The Atlantic, 2014): @ 

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