The+Civil+Rights+Act+of+1964.kj

CivilRightsAct: Kennedy waited for the right time to bring up the issue on segregation. then the time came when the inauguration of Wallace the governor said "i draw a line in the dust... segregations now!" On June 12, 1963 Kennedy talked to Americans about the Moral issue. Martin Luther King made a speech to get his civil rights through to the congress, with 200,000 other demonstrators with him, which was called the MArch on Washington. it built momentum for the Civil Rights Bill. African Americans were worried that the bill would not be passed then Kennedy was assissinated and his vice president, Lyndon Johnson, became the new president. Suprising the civil rights movement, Johnson was super committed to the getting the bill passed through congress. then his help payed off when the bill was passed through the House of Representatives. Finally on July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed the Civil Right Act into law. This law gave the federal government power to prevent racial discrimination in a bunch of areas. The law made segregation illegal, and gave citizens of all races equal access to public places.