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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 21 December 2024. Landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law This article is about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For other American laws called the Civil Rights Acts, see Civil Rights Act. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Long title An Act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the ...
[58] [59] Byrd voted in favor of the initial House resolution for the Civil Rights Act of 1957 on June 18, 1957, [60] but voted against the Senate amendment to the bill on August 27, 1957. [61] Byrd voted against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, [62] [63] [64] as well as the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court. [65]
Iowa restores the voting rights of felons who completed their prison sentences. [59] Nebraska ends lifetime disenfranchisement of people with felonies but adds a five-year waiting period. [62] 2006. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was extended for the fourth time by President George W. Bush, being the second extension of 25 years. [64]
A staunch opponent of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. [2] In the 1960s, he voted against both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
President Lyndon B. Johnson hands a pen to Rev. Martin Luther King after signing the historic Civil Rights Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1964.
Gore voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, in fact filibustering against it, although he supported the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Gore was a vocal champion of the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956, which secured creation of interstate highways.
Tower was a leading opponent of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and voted against both bills, [7] [8] [9] as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, [10] but he did not vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1968 [11] and voted in favor of the confirmation of Thurgood Marshall to the U.S. Supreme Court. [12]
Goldwater voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, [45] [46] [48] but did not vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1960 because he was absent from the chamber, with Senate Minority Whip Thomas Kuchel (R–CA) announcing that Goldwater would have voted in favor if present. [47]