Good morning. N my name is adrienne cannon. I am the africanAmerican History specialist for the Manuscript Division of the library of congress and one of the curators for the library s current exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1954 entitled the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a long struggle for freedom. The exhibit takes its subtitle from the speech that president Lyndon Johnson read before the nation upon the signing of the act on july 2, 1964. There is a copy of the speech borrowed from the johnson president ial library included in the exhibit. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is considered the most significant use of civil rights legislation since reconstruction. It prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, in the areas of voting, employment, public accommodations, public facilities, education. The exhibit has four overall objectives, to present a history of the u. S. Civil rights law chronicling a series of federal laws a
Act of 1954 entitled the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a long struggle for freedom. The exhibit takes its subtitle from the speech that president Lyndon Johnson read before the nation upon the signing of the act on july 2, 1964. The u. S. Constitution did not ask me mention slavery, but there are at least three references to slavery in the document. The history of the u. S. Is a series of federal laws that paves the way for the federal tohts act of mention 64 present a concurrent history of the 20th Century Civil Rights Movement that includes accounts , organizations, and events that shaped the movement, as well as examples of music, literature, and visual arts that were inspired by the mu movement. They tell the story of the epic of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in congress including an expiration of the legislative process and legislative strategy, the tactics that were employed. To employ explore the impact of the Civil Rights Act on American Life and law from 1964 until the present. We
Legislation designed to force a radical view of democrats in the senate that abortion should be universally available, common, without limit, and paid for by the taxpayer. That is an extreme and radical view. It is a view shared by a tiny percentage of americans, although a very High Percentage of activists that the Democratic Party who find, provide manpower politically. And it is also a very real manifestation of all war on women given the enormous Health Consequences that unlimited abortion has had damaging the health and sometimes even the lives of women. I have with me 317 statements from texas women who have been hurt by abortion along with letters from texans opposing this bill, along with letters from prolife doctors, nurses, lawmakers across the United States. With the chairmans permission i would like to have it entered into the record. Without objection. A number of the restrictions of this legislation would be invalidated, commonsense restrictions the vast majority of ameri
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Armies whose idea time has come. It was. The chamber was absolutely jammed. The gallery filled, standing room only, no staff allowed on the floor. Just 100 senators. As the vote proceeded, it was silent like a tomb, and when John Williams of delaware cast the deciding vote, everyone, there was a corporate exhaling of breath. It was so tense that everybody literally held their breath until that last vote was counted, and in a blink, Richard Russell was on his feet demanding to know what the hell wed do next. Just to think about it, you know how hard it is to get 60 for todays senate, this was 67, which was a much higher bar, and there was clearly a block of people who were against it, and it was one by one, president Lyndon Johnson got a few, and one i remember writing about was jack miller, the other senator from iowa, i think it was dubuque, and there was an archbishop who called him saying if you dont vote for cloture, well excommunicate you. I mean this was really today, Martin Luth