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5 days ago · On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the landmark law, saying he hoped to “eliminate the last vestiges of injustice” for Black Americans.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize. Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton for the first time. Students storm the administration building and stage sit in at the University of California 800 are arrested.
6 days ago · The law ended segregation, extended lives and improved public education. Its full promise remains unrealized, activists say. It's been 60 years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law ...
June 9 – In Federal Court in Kansas City, Kansas, Army deserter George John Gessner, 28, is convicted of passing United States secrets to the Soviet Union. June 10. The U.S. Senate votes cloture of the Civil Rights Bill after a 75-day filibuster.
1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1964th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 964th year of the 2nd millennium, the 64th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1960s decade.
6 days ago · On July 2, 1964, when President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act, a crowd gathered behind him. Among them were some of the Black leaders and activists who had led the movement that made it ...
6 days ago · And in early 1964, the 21-year-old took his new camera on perhaps the most momentous musical journey of the 20th century: The Beatles' invasion of America. On The Beatles' first visit to the ...
