2. The High Water Mark Of The Civil Rights Movement?
The Civil Rights Act Of 1964
The High Water Mark Of The Civil Rights Movement?

3. Civil Rights Act of 1964
Most comprehensive civil rights law ever enacted by Congress
Made segregation illegal in most public places of public accommodation
Gave the attorney general power to bring lawsuits to force school desegregation
Required private employers to end workplace discrimination
Established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) as a permanent agency in the federal government. EEOC monitors the ban on job discrimination by race, religion, gender, and national origin.

4. The bill was originally called for by President Kennedy in 1963

5. The Bill was stalled in Congress by Congressman Howard Smith, a Virginia Democrat.
"The Southern people have never accepted the colored race as a race of people who had equal intelligence ... as the white people of the South."

6. After Kennedy’s Assassination, The Bill Is Signed In 1964 By President Johnson

7. The Bill Passes On Sectional Lines
House Of Representatives:
Southern Democrats: 7–87   (7%–93%)
Southern Republicans: 0–10   (0%–100%)
Northern Democrats:   (94%–6%)
Northern Republicans:   (85%–15%)
Senate:
Southern Democrats: 1–20   (5%–95%)
Southern Republicans: 0–1   (0%–100%)
Northern Democrats: 45-1   (98%–2%)
Northern Republicans: 27-5   (84%–16%)

8. Is This King’s Dream?