10 Ways Things Are Completely Different Because of LBJ and the Civil Rights Movement

Press Releases | Jul, 2 2014

Leaders marching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial, August 28, 1963.

Before President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the U.S. was a very different place—there was no such thing as equality for minorities, for women, basically for anyone who wasn’t a white male.

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