Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Chapter 28, Section 3.

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Lyndon B. Johnson and Civil Rights: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Chapter 28, Section 3

LBJ and Civil Rights Lyndon Johnson pledged to carry on JFK’s work w/ Civil Rights Urged and pushed for Kennedy’s CR bill to be passed Passed in the House and filibustered in Senate Johnson ended filibuster and Kennedy’s bill became the Civil Rights Act of 1964 After passage, goal of the CR movement became focused on securing the right to vote

LBJ – Passes the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Civil Rights Act of 1964 Prohibited discrimination because of race, religion, national origin, and gender Gave all citizens the right to enter all public places Gave government more power to desegregate Created the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Group Assignment

1.At the top of your group’s page, include an overviewing summary of the Civil Rights Act of Then, choose one of the main titles of the bill to focus on: Rewrite this part in your own words in a way that anyone would be able to understand Basically - what is this part of the bill focused on? 3.What adjustments, changes, or additions would you make? either to further support the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s or to better relate the act to today’s society / issues going on today regarding civil rights (this can be about your chosen specific section or about the Civil Rights Act as a whole)

Sources to use anscript (full transcript of the CR Act of 1964) anscript files/PPL_CivilRightsAct_1964.pdf (original manuscript of the Act) files/PPL_CivilRightsAct_1964.pdf (basic information about the Civil Rights Act of 1964) html (EXCELLENT WEBSITE about the passage, background, and information relating to the Civil Rights Act of 1964) html (LBJ’s remarks on signing the Civil Rights bill) See the class website for a legislative process of the Civil Rights Bill and more information about it.