Transcripts For CSPAN3 American Artifacts 20151129

Act on july the second, 1964. This is the copy that was put into the teleprompter. My fellow americans, im about to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I want to take this occasion to talk to you about what that law means to every american. Smallars ago this week, a valleylley and men and men began a long struggle for freedom. He did six draft of the speech and then he added extemporaneously the word long to indicate the many decades, really centuries, of slow progression toward realizing civil rights. This bill began as a commendation of the struggle of decades of struggles of africanamericans, but when it was passed, incomebased allamericans. Encompass everyone regardless of race, color, sex, or national origin. It is really about the ongoing struggle in this country to achieve that more perfect union. Cspan presents landmark cases, the cspan presents landmark cases, a book which supports the Supreme Court decisions. Including marbury is is madison, brown versus the board of education, aranda races the board of arizona and rove versus wade. It features introductions, highlights and the impact of each case. Written by tony morrow and published in cooperation with cq press. Its available for 8. 95 plus shipping. Beginning october 19, 1965 and continuing for five weeks, this battle was in the words of