HISTORY AND POLITICS
The 1964 Civil Rights Act Is A Bipartisan Law
Yes, this really did happen
President Joe Biden commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 yesterday. He delivered a speech at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Texas reminding everyone of the passage of the law. It was a speech Biden was determined to make.
The Civil Rights Act (CRA) of 1964 is one of the laws that changed the country for the better. Many agree that the Fourteenth Amendment of 1868, the 1954 Brown decision, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 are the trio of legal moments that changed America.
The CRA of 1964 not only ended discrimination in “public accommodations,” but it has also been used “to enforce the constitutional right to vote,” “to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education,” “to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs,” and “to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity…”
Despite the fact that President Biden, a Democrat, commemorated the law’s passage, the law was originally passed only with the cooperation of both of the country’s two dominant political parties — Democrat and Republican. Today’s GOP, a different party today than the party that helped pass the law, has repeatedly allowed the…
