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"I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary."

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The whole point of the Civil Rights Act was to give rights to anybody who was segregated to others. Many disagreed with that idea (Whites) and started a riot and many people were killed from whites, police, and etc.

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In the picture, it shows how people felt about the Civil Rights Act because MOST Southerners didn't like the Civil Rights Act.

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Video of the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

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Video of the signing of the Civil Rights Act.

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In the video above, it shows that Lyndon B. Johnson is signing the Civil Rights Act on Tv.

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Lyndon B. Johnson is the one sitting down signing the Civil Rights Act and Martin Luther King Jr. is the man right behind him.

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This image shows white officers arresting a black person due to his skin color. He has not committed any crime.

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Birmingham police officers arresting Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, Good Friday, 1963.

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US President who supported the Civil Rights Act.

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"Today, we are committed to a worldwide struggle to promote and protect the rights of all who wish to be free. … It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color.”
-John F. Kennedy

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John F. Kennedy (US president) made a Civil Rights Address.

Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize.

The cornerstone of Johnson's War on Poverty (which became a party slogan) was the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.

The act created a government agency, called the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), that launched job training and education programs to promote self-sufficiency and urban renewal by helping low-income people find productive employment("Great Society." Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History. Ed. Thomas Riggs. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2015. 535-536. U.S. History in Context. Web. 23 May 2016)

Martin Luther King informed that all his prize money ($54,000), was going to the various civil rights organizations.

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Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968), African American clergyman and civil rights leader.

Rosa Parks (1913–2005), civil rights activist.

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973), President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963), president of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

Southerners or Dixiecrats, saw it as an attack on the Southern way of life

Robert Byrd, Virginia Democrat

Barry Goldwater, Arizona Republican

Strom Thurmond, Senator

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President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs Civil Rights Act, Gives Pen to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. received one of the pens.

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Civil rights activists boycotted buses to protest segregation in public transportation.

Nine outstanding black students were allowed to attend Central High School. These students became known as the Little Rock Nine.

In the Montgomery bus boycott, thousands of African Americans stopped riding the buses. Few white residents supported the boycott as well. Bus ridership fell by 70 percent (United States History).

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African Americans continued to face segregation after World War II. Early victories in the civil rights movement included the end of segregation in baseball in 1947 and President Truman’s ban on segregation in the military in 1948. These successes were the beginning of a national movement for civil rights (United States History).

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In 2008, Americans elected Obama, our first African American president ever. It would have been not possible in the 1960's.

There have been racial debates ever since the law was passed.

“At the start of the twenty-first century, most people accept the fact that all Americans, regardless of race, sex, religion, have the right to eat in any restaurant and stay in any hotel”.

Now, the nation is 1/3 people of color.

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This shows that white men had more rights then women. However, at the time they seemed to have more rights then women, and people of different races.

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There was discrimination in public establishments based on “race, color, and religion”

African-Americans would get lesser bathrooms, drinking fountains, etc. Also, they would be treated very poorly, and even killed by groups such as the Klu Klux Klan.

There was a large controversy on whether or not the government should get involved with if private businesses wanted to hire African-Americans or if landlords wanted to allow African-Americans in.

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The Civil Rights Act was a U.S law that bans discrimination because of a person’s color, race, national origin, religion, or gender (Encyclopedia).

The Civil Rights Act ended segregation in baseball in 1947 and President Truman’s ban on segregation in the military in 1948.

Congress was nervous about passing the law because there were white Southerners in Congress.

The 14th Amendment supports the Civil Rights Act because The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech

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Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech

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His speech helped blacks realize how they were being treated.

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Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have A Dream" Speech