Civil Rights Act of 1964

Event Type:

Government and Politics, Remembrance

WHEN: July 2, ANNUALLY

WHERE: Wherever you are. Or host and announce your own event for others to attend.

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Civil Rights Act.

In protest against both the Civil Rights and Voting Rights (1965), Sons of confederate Vets-Strom Thurmond jumped from the Democratic party with all other kkk members, excluding Robert Byrd. Byrd quit kkk and denounced kkk. Neo-confederates, dixiecrats and white supremacists, now fully occupying GOP, have been fighting against both Civil and Voting (1965) Rights Acts ever since. Look at the legislation of GOP, and white supremacist acts of Robby Starbuck and Edward Blum

Do something educational for others on this day, to remind of the importance of Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Host a history lesson party on the struggles for Civil Rights. Remind of how far we've come, and how far we have to go, and why each and every blue vote matters.

Most important: VOTE! Register to vote, THEN, show up to actually vote, every year, including in midterms, which is when extremists rise to power because of lack of voter turnout.

In honor of World War I Veteran, Mr. Lamar "Ditney" Smith (Lincoln County, Mississippi), VOTE!

In 2018, Smith's murder once again received national attention when it was discovered that the murderer was related to the husband of [white supremacist, confederate, GOP] Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, who made campaign comments, which she claimed were jokes, about public hangings, and cast voter suppression in a positive light.

• Buried Truth: Unresolved, Disregarded Lamar Smith Murder Haunts Lincoln County — mississippifreepress.org
• Aug. 13, 1955: Lamar Smith Murdered — zinnedproject.org
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Smith_(activist)

Democrat President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act

On July 2, 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House.

In the landmark 1954 case Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools was unconstitutional. The 10 years that followed saw great strides for the African American civil rights movement, as non-violent demonstrations won thousands of supporters to the cause.

The Southern Manifesto of 1956 co-authored by Sons of confederate Vets Strom Thurmond and Carl Vinson, as an outline for segregation and discrimination. Thurmond is the voice of today's GOP, klansman Rand Paul, the bad grades guy, and all, y'all. 🤨

• pbs.org
• Clemson University actually has a "Strom Thurmond Institute" to honor a child rapist, serial adulterer and white supremacist, so racist, that he kept his black love child from rape a secret until his death. JUST WOW. — https://libraries.clemson.edu/specialcollections/strom-thurmond-institute/. Once klan trash, always klan trash. AVOID Clemson University!
• Origin of white supremacist, Sons of confederate Vets' Strom Thurmond's Southern Manifesto — https://open.clemson.edu/strom/1376
• history.house.gov — March 12, 1956
• web.archive.org/web/20150926013722/http://sti.clemson.edu/component/content/article/192-general-info/790-1956-qsouthern-manifestoq
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Manifesto