Today in History 07/02 (Civil Rights Act)

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., and others watch on July 2, 1964 (© Cecil Stoughton/White House Press Office )(1964) Landmark US Civil Rights Act becomes law
President Lyndon Johnson signs a culmination of centuries of activism and struggle, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in a televised ceremony at the White House. The new law bars racial segregation in public places, and discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools, employment, and public accommodations.
Date: 1964

Civil Rights Act 1964 House Roll Call
The record of the roll call vote kept by the House Clerk on final passage of the bill
wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
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(1964) Landmark US Civil Rights Act becomes law.
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1839 | Africans escape their chains and commandeer a slave ship
Led by Sengbe Pieh, 53 Africans stage a revolt and capture their transport, the slave ship Amistad, 20 miles off the coast of Cuba. Pieh, also known as Joseph Cinqué, will later stand trial in front of the US Supreme Court where he will successfully petition for his and his fellow captives’ freedom.
1881 | Assassin’s bullets hit new American president
With a small entourage including Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert Todd Lincoln, President James Garfield waits to catch a train in Washington, DC, when Charles Guiteau shoots him twice in the back at point-blank range. America’s 20th president will die more than two months later.
1897 | Wireless telegraphy advances into radio with Marconi’s help
Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi, age 23, is awarded a patent in London for a new form of wireless telegraphy, bringing ‘Improvements in Transmitting Electrical impulses and Signals and in Apparatus therefor.’ Marconi’s device will become known by its more common name, the radio.

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