civil rights act 1964

THE PROOF IS IN THE LEGISLATION! April 8, 1865 13th Amendment banning slavery passed by U.S. Senate with 100% Republican support, 63% Democrat opposition June 8, 1866 U.S. Senate passes Republicans’ 14th Amendment guaranteeing due process and equal protection of the law to all citizens; 94% of Republicans vote yes and 100% of Democrats vote no MARCH 30 the 15th Amendment (https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fifteenth-amendment), granting African American men the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution (https://www.history.com/topics/constitution). Passed by REPUBLICAN Congress the year before The Fifteenth Amendment, granting Black men the right to vote, was ratified on this day in 1870. Yet, as we saw in Georgia this past election, voter suppression is real and it disproportionately affects Black men and communities of color. We must end barriers to the ballot box. THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT Was only passed because of 98% REPUBLICAN support! 97% DEMOCRAT OPPOSITION! Democrats used filibusters on multiple occasions to stop the bill in their “War on Women” until Republicans were ultimately successful in 1919*.* House Vote: 85% of Republicans Yes; and only 54% of Democrats Yes Senate Vote: 56 to 25 (**Republicans 36 Yes, 8 No); (Democrats 20 Yes, 17 No** (http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1920womensvote.html)) When the Amendment was submitted to the states, **26 of the 36 states** that ratified it **had Republican legislatures**. Of the **nine states that voted against** ratification, **eight were Democratic.** June 9, 1964 Republicans condemn 14-hour filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act by U.S. Senator and former Ku Klux Klansman Robert Byrd (D-WV), who still serves in the Senate June 10, 1964 Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (R-IL) criticizes Democrat filibuster against 1964 Civil Rights Act, calls on Democrats to stop opposing racial equality The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was introduced and approved by a staggering majority of Republicans in the Senate. The Act was opposed by most southern Democrat senators, several of whom were proud segregationists—one of them being Al Gore Sr. Democrat President Lyndon B. Johnson relied on Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson, the Republican leader from Illinois, to get the Act passed. August 10, 1988 President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR November 21, 1991 President George H. W. Bush signs Civil Rights Act of 1991 to strengthen federal civil rights legislation August 10, 1988 President Ronald Reagan signs Civil Liberties Act of 1988, compensating Japanese-Americans for deprivation of civil rights and property during World War II internment ordered by FDR CIVIL RIGHTS 1964