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Civil Rights Act of 1964

    Black and white photo shows a seated President Lyndon B. Johnson surrounded by male dignitaries, most of whom are white, as he signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., one of the few Black people in the photo, stands directly behind the president to view the signing.

    President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act with Martin Luther King Jr. standing behind him. This pathbreaking legislation outlawed racial segregation in places of public accommodation, which included, among other venues, amusement parks like Atlanta’s Fun Town, the target of King’s wrath in his 1963 “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

    1964
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    Public Domain
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    Photo by Cecil Stoughton, White House Press Office, Executive Office of the President of the United State, via “Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Wikipedia