Timeline: The road to the Civil Rights Act

Signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964, the act fulfilled the promise of civil rights legislation that John F. Kennedy had made the year prior.

The sweeping legislation outlawed discrimination in public accommodations, provided for public school integration and established the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

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