No offense but you apparently know very little about the civil rights act of 1964.Affirmative action(which we can debate some other time lol) was in no way mentioned.
From wikepedia:
"The bill had been introduced by President John F. Kennedy in his civil rights speech of June 11, 1963,[1] in which he asked for legislation "giving all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the public—hotels, restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments," as well as "greater protection for the right to vote."
"The bill was sent to the House of Representatives, and referred to the House Judiciary Committee, chaired by Emmanuel Celler. After a series of hearings on the bill, Celler's committee greatly strengthened the act, adding provisions to ban racial discrimination in employment. The bill was reported out of the Judiciary Committee in November 1963, but was then referred to the Rules Committee, whose chairman, Howard W. Smith, a Democrat from Virginia, indicated his intention to keep the bill bottled up indefinitely.
It was at this point that President Kennedy was assassinated. The new president, Lyndon Johnson, utilized his experience in parliamentary politics and the bully pulpit he wielded as president in support of the bill.
Because of Smith's stalling of the bill in the Rules Committee, Celler filed a petition to discharge the bill from the Committee. Only if a majority of members signed the discharge petition, the bill would move directly to the House floor without consideration by advocates. Initially Johnson had a difficult time acquiring the signatures necessary, as even many congressmen who supported the civil rights bill itself were cautious about ********* House procedure with the discharge petition. By the time of the 1963 winter recess, fifty signatures were still wanting.
On the return from the winter recess, however, matters took a significant turn. The President's public advocacy of the Act had made a difference of opinion in congressmen's home districts, and soon it became apparent that the petition would acquire the necessary signatures. To prevent the *********** of the success of the petition, Chairman Smith allowed the bill to pass through the Rules Committee.
The bill was brought to a vote in the House on February 10, 1964, and ****** by a vote of 290 to 130, and sent to the Senat
Before that it was lawfull to bar blacks from public places like lunch counters and similar places.And to discriminatorily block them from voting and employment.It was a great piece of legislation and one of the really good things the president at the time LBJ who spoke and fought for it very passionately did in his time in office.No other president besides maybe Lincoln did more to advance EQUAL rights in this country.He was all wrong with vietnam but this he was not wrong on.
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