From the archives: Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law

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  • On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. Johnson delivered televised remarks and was later joined by civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and other lawmakers and public figures.
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  • @striell18
    @striell18 Рік тому +35

    These historical videos are important to watch so we can understand the intent at which these policies were passed so when we talk about it in modern times we can accurately describe what is meant through its passage and see if it needs updating or changed to adjust to the times. This is a great speech and everyone should watch it

    • @BasicMusicCenter
      @BasicMusicCenter Рік тому +1

      Strengthening Russia and China has challenged US dominance in the geopolitical landscape. With the increase in the bellicose, military and economic power of these superpowers and their allies, the US runs the risk of becoming dependent on war. Faced with this reality, it is crucial that the United States rethink its strategies and prepare to face the challenges, otherwise, they can become subservient 🤔.

    • @kevinjenner9502
      @kevinjenner9502 Рік тому

      The same year as the Gulf of Tonkin lie. The nonexistent attack of 8/4/64 and US commitment to total war in Vietnam.

    • @scillyautomatic
      @scillyautomatic Рік тому

      And yet liberals want to silence any video that doesn't support their narrative. Ironic.

  • @ForrestAnna
    @ForrestAnna Рік тому +41

    OMG, I owe my whole success in life to this president, through his "War on Poverty." I was able to get my GED, go to college, become a teacher myself, and taught for several years. Now I enjoy my retirement and build an inheritance for my children. WE need more of this man!!!

    • @L_back
      @L_back 9 місяців тому +3

      You made existence better for the next generations. Thank you!

    • @dashien2605
      @dashien2605 Місяць тому +1

      Definitely 🙌🏾

  • @latarashamcneil9101
    @latarashamcneil9101 Рік тому +14

    I'm so glad the the President used the phrase "hunger for freedom". Hunger implies a NEED for all people.... "Irrelevant differences"... "God is the Father of us ALL."
    Civil Rights Act

  • @meganwynn372
    @meganwynn372 Рік тому +21

    This is so wonderful! Thank you ❤

    • @Dhuxul9
      @Dhuxul9 10 місяців тому +1

      It was good idea but now it turned into a terrible idea

    • @sapphicwriter
      @sapphicwriter 5 місяців тому

      @@Dhuxul9 ??????

  • @aboucard93
    @aboucard93 Рік тому +9

    Thank you thank you so much for sharing this

  • @thatmessylife6427
    @thatmessylife6427 Рік тому +19

    One of the most important things that have happened in our history! Thank you for pulling this from archives , this is an important thing for everyone to watch and Understand!

  • @mr.stately9205
    @mr.stately9205 4 місяці тому +5

    Just remember in states like Florida, Texas, Alabama, and many more this historic speech and the events that precluded it will no longer be taught to school children becasue it could be classified as CRT AKA uncomfortable truths that spark conversation. Imagine an entire generation of American children that will never know about their nations true history all because their parents don't want to deal with the questions they may have about life. We have truly become soft as a country. People ask whats killing our nation? Well, our refusual to learn from the past certainly doesnt help.

  • @sheevpalpatine8230
    @sheevpalpatine8230 11 місяців тому +13

    Astonishing how many of you Americans don’t fully appreciate how important Johnson specifically was to the Civil Rights Act.
    No he did not just finish what JFK started. The bill was doomed to death in the Senate, just as plenty of iterations had been previously. His unique powers of persuasion, skills, and relationships saw the filibuster end.
    This is not to say he was a perfect man, far from it. There was his treatment of Lady Bird, Vietnam, casual and habitual sexual and verbal harassment, racist language, and more.
    I highly highly recommend Robert Caro’s biographies of Lyndon Johnson (yes there are more than one). They will give incredible insight into the most interesting President certainly of modern times.

    • @woozy7405
      @woozy7405 9 місяців тому

      How do you feel about HBO's All The Way movie

    • @tomford1080
      @tomford1080 Місяць тому

      Btw it was the Republican congress who got this passed..democrats opposed it. But the flip worked for black people like my parents and they fell for the democrat parties trick hook line and sinker

  • @teresalegler2777
    @teresalegler2777 Рік тому +6

    A great day for our history. This video should be shown at every school. Now it is time to make sure that the promises made that historic day are completed.

    • @tony84.
      @tony84. Рік тому

      💯We cannot let an ILLEGITIMATE, bias, corrupt, racist, political, on the take extremist six Republican appointees on the Supreme "court" destroy our Democracy. We have five TOTALLY ILLEGITIMATE "justices" on the court that were appointed by "presidents" who initially or totally lost the popular vote. They DO NOT have the will, honor, standing or backing of a majority or even plurality of the American people. They are POLITICIANS in robes.

  • @gayle7962
    @gayle7962 Рік тому +9

    Amen to that!!!❤❤❤

  • @alanbailey5621
    @alanbailey5621 Рік тому +11

    Johnson had a choice, either lead, follow or get out of the way. All the credit goes to the civil rights movement.

    • @jamesnewport-haas4575
      @jamesnewport-haas4575 2 місяці тому +1

      I mostly agree with you. I would argue however that Johnson was a true believer and effective tool of civil rights. The civil rights movement managed to convince both LBJ and Harry Truman to support civil rights. Two racist southerners with massive practical power to help or hinder civil rights.

  • @peanut2us
    @peanut2us Рік тому +6

    When you see him giving up his signature on civil rights it is a clear indicator of what this nation has become since Lincoln. You can not run from the truth but we can stop living a lie. The time for continuing the real dream is now.

  • @jsykes04111954
    @jsykes04111954 Рік тому +1

    Thank you!

  • @jonasguanzon5540
    @jonasguanzon5540 Рік тому +2

    HEART OF GOLD

  • @marvinhagler4721
    @marvinhagler4721 Рік тому +4

    THEY want to take us back to the era BEFORE the signing...Its so easy to see

  • @jonasguanzon5540
    @jonasguanzon5540 Рік тому +1

    Thank You God Bless You all Sir Peace upon with you all

    • @kevinjenner9502
      @kevinjenner9502 Рік тому +1

      The same year as the Gulf of Tonkin lie…..HR McMaster’s 1997 book “Dereliction of Duty : Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, The Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam”

  • @tony84.
    @tony84. Рік тому +1

    1:51, This is a great post.

  • @bryceross7321
    @bryceross7321 2 місяці тому +1

    An absolute historic moment in history

  • @thelastbison2241
    @thelastbison2241 Рік тому +3

    Can you imagine if most politicians spoke like this today, work as hard in the backrooms, and though far from perfect was prepared to go through such trials?

  • @TammyVance50
    @TammyVance50 9 місяців тому +1

    FREEDOM!!!!JUSTICE!!!!!
    FREEDOM!!!!
    WAKE UP CALL AMERICANS CALLING FREEDOM AGAIN!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

  • @sickandtiredofbeingsickand
    @sickandtiredofbeingsickand Рік тому +15

    This was something to be proud of for our country! I am ashamed today.

    • @keithhoss4990
      @keithhoss4990 Рік тому +3

      Ashamed of equality?

    • @sickandtiredofbeingsickand
      @sickandtiredofbeingsickand Рік тому +8

      @@keithhoss4990 Ashamed of the lack of it. Are you dense?

    • @keithhoss4990
      @keithhoss4990 Рік тому +1

      @@sickandtiredofbeingsickand👈Room temperature IQ
      No one in the United States is lacking rights. You people are stooges 😵‍💫🤡

    • @sickandtiredofbeingsickand
      @sickandtiredofbeingsickand Рік тому

      @@keithhoss4990 No one is lacking rights!? Tell that to every single birthing aged woman! Tell that to every person of color whose voting rights are being squashed! Tell that to the people living in gerrymandered voting districts! Tell that to the entire LGBTQIA population! Go buy a clue! Who is really the stooge!? Look in the mirror MAGAt!!😂😂😂💙💙💙🎪🤡💙💙💙😂😂😂

    • @124marsh
      @124marsh Рік тому +3

      Give thanks to the Republicans otherwise you wouldn’t have it you don’t believe me look it up double dog dare you

  • @halenatherepublicanprinces8260
    @halenatherepublicanprinces8260 7 місяців тому +1

  • @pennyoswalt4656
    @pennyoswalt4656 11 місяців тому +2

    Remind us Lord!!

  • @shawnnewell4541
    @shawnnewell4541 Рік тому +14

    When was the last time you heard the President address us as fellow Americans? Trump never did.

    • @ArabsforIsrael
      @ArabsforIsrael Рік тому +5

      Why would you bring Trump into this??

    • @RSF-DiscoveryTime
      @RSF-DiscoveryTime Рік тому +4

      @@ArabsforIsrael Be realistic. The Game Show Host that-likes-people-who-weren't-captured has been
      in the news every single day since 2015. He is already into everything. I also see TRUMP and NEWSMAX in your homepage likes, which clearly explains your objection. You are "part of the problem" and this post disturbs you.

    • @124marsh
      @124marsh Рік тому

      @@RSF-DiscoveryTime If it wasn’t for the Republicans who voted for this bill it would’ve never happened don’t believe me look it up I double dog dare you

    • @ArabsforIsrael
      @ArabsforIsrael Рік тому +1

      @@RSF-DiscoveryTime and a simple question triggers YOU. get out of your feelings and be an adult. I'll bet you're one of those people who uses they/them pronouns or some such crap lol

    • @redcomet0079
      @redcomet0079 Рік тому

      @@ArabsforIsrael 👈 Trump lover 🤢🧠🗑

  • @karlmartin849
    @karlmartin849 2 місяці тому

    Almost 60 years ago now.

  • @thelastbison2241
    @thelastbison2241 Рік тому +1

    Very brave, no politician have this level of courage today.

  • @user-ne6gp4gn6x
    @user-ne6gp4gn6x 10 місяців тому +1

    a good president for the times

  • @meganwynn372
    @meganwynn372 Рік тому +4

    Im sure all involved would agree, despite being polititians, that the message, is what matters here, who said it is not to seek glory. He does not glorify himself in anyway. He credited M.L.K. Not Himself. He never said his name. Like we should stop labeling races at all. What do we need them for?
    Throw away lables. And then we will be free, to all live as we were meant to, together.

    • @dashien2605
      @dashien2605 Місяць тому

      He’s the type of president we need today!

  • @cynthiacahoon8907
    @cynthiacahoon8907 Рік тому +9

    And instead of going forward, we went backward. Humanity is their own worst enemy.
    So sad😢

    • @keithhoss4990
      @keithhoss4990 Рік тому

      Do you seriously believe this? Who in the United States today is lacking rights? Specific examples not the atypical Dummycrat broad brush lies.

    • @sickandtiredofbeingsickand
      @sickandtiredofbeingsickand Рік тому +3

      Exactly!

    • @Dhuxul9
      @Dhuxul9 10 місяців тому +1

      Yes now the opposite is discriminated against

  • @melanoidwarrior2906
    @melanoidwarrior2906 Рік тому +2

    The supremacist court will get rid of this too

    • @tony84.
      @tony84. Рік тому +1

      They certainly will try. We need to VOTE and PRAY🙏 The unprecedented corruption from the Republican appointees on the current Supreme Court is despicable. They are political, corrupt, bias, ILLEGITIMATE, and on the take!

  • @an.american
    @an.american Рік тому

    Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
    At the time of Kennedy’s assassination, U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War remained fairly limited. But that changed in August 1964, when the so-called Gulf of Tonkin incident prompted Congress to grant expansive war-making powers to newly installed President Lyndon B. Johnson. Recognizing that the South Vietnamese government and army were on the verge of collapse, Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops into battle in early 1965. He simultaneously authorized a massive bombing campaign, codenamed Operation Rolling Thunder, that would continue unabated for years.
    Draft calls soon skyrocketed-along with draft resistance-and by 1967 there were around 500,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam. That same year, large anti-war demonstrations popped up in cities across America.
    U.S. officials kept insisting that victory was imminent. But, as the Pentagon Papers would later reveal, these comments were deeply misleading. In reality, the conflict had devolved into a quagmire.
    Vietnam became so polarizing, and Johnson’s name became so synonymous with the war effort, that he ultimately decided not to run for re-election in 1968.
    1966 - Lyndon B. Johnson expanded the number of troops being sent into Vietnam to 385,000.
    By 1968, the United States had 548,000 troops in Vietnam and had already lost 30,000 Americans there.

    • @superoldgamesaturday3277
      @superoldgamesaturday3277 Рік тому

      Kennedy was all on on Vietnam. For that, Lee Harvey Oswald was right.

    • @micah4242
      @micah4242 7 місяців тому

      He thought he would lose to Robert Kennedy, which he probably would have. Instead, RFK was killed and we got Nixon who bombed the crap out of Vietnam for 5 more years.

  • @user-dz7su9dn5q
    @user-dz7su9dn5q Рік тому +1

    Really?

  • @DeRocco21
    @DeRocco21 3 місяці тому

    Millenials and subsequent generations never watched this

  • @user-oo3dh9cf8z
    @user-oo3dh9cf8z 7 місяців тому +1

    Can anyone make out what Pres. Johnson says to MLK at 12:57 ?

  • @iraneman1668
    @iraneman1668 Місяць тому

    What happened to the pen MLK Jr finally received from President?

  • @lise1255
    @lise1255 Рік тому +1

    I wouldn't be surprised if the POTUS will try to repeal the law of civil rights act too !😢

    • @tony84.
      @tony84. Рік тому

      This corrupt court will. Some extremist billionaire will bring a lawsuit, pay Alito, Roberts, and Thomas, and their you have it. They will eliminate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

    • @superoldgamesaturday3277
      @superoldgamesaturday3277 Рік тому +1

      Biden is against it, so it's possible.

    • @micah4242
      @micah4242 7 місяців тому

      @@superoldgamesaturday3277
      What are you talking about?

  • @RichardCashewki
    @RichardCashewki Рік тому +1

    This man is what a president should be.

    • @superoldgamesaturday3277
      @superoldgamesaturday3277 7 місяців тому +1

      What? A racist warmonger? Because that's what Lyndon Johnson was and Joe Biden is no different from him today.

  • @132indo
    @132indo 5 місяців тому

    this was John F. Kennedy's idea and legislation.

  • @kevinjenner9502
    @kevinjenner9502 Рік тому

    The same year as the Gulf of Tonkin lie. The non existent attack of 8/4/64 and the subsequent commitment to total war in Vietnam.

  • @minewheaties5029
    @minewheaties5029 Місяць тому

    LBJ made clear he wanted it signed on the 4th of July Weekend with the "188 years ago" reference. The legend of Kennedys is really dying. Biden was Ted Kennedy's closest Senate comrade, and shares with the Kennedys an Irish Catholic identity, and he has not signed anything as significant as the Civil Rights Act. LBJ is only getting stronger the more it becomes clear that he was more responsible for the act's success and that the Kennedys were not the godly legends they have often been hyped as. Biden was one of the last hopes for the legacy of the Kennedys, and he has not signed anything as nearly as significant.

  • @oscarl.ramirez7355
    @oscarl.ramirez7355 4 місяці тому

    My 2 siblings are a Product of Head Start, and when my Youngest Sister came along well at that Time My Dad did not qualify for that. As the Song Says " You got to know when to hold them, when to fold them, when to Walk away and ....
    Those Old WASP's need to Step Down and let someone Far Younger and Better to take it to the Next Level.
    Just Saying...

  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n Рік тому +1

    Гуфиниякта гадраст

  • @sherintv478
    @sherintv478 Рік тому +1

    . ❤

  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n Рік тому +1

    Крагунана бракта дриктоскт кубланкт гизания гранкта каринакт габланкта графинкта

  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n Рік тому +1

    Лартака сток бунданка рок 👍 фияркута бонза бугазотка тутка сияние бухта

  • @chriszenko3598
    @chriszenko3598 Рік тому +2

    I believe historians will look at the Hart Celler act as the beginning of the end.

    • @bountifulauto8257
      @bountifulauto8257 Рік тому

      Truly you must despise America and be antipatriotic if you think American democracy is weak enough that it can be destroyed by something as trivial as non-Europeans immigrating to it

  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n Рік тому +1

    Гардрикта мугазот боракта каскрот ияхта гуфраниякта гудракт

  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n Рік тому +1

    Каркустка страктакта барзактория бакраска буструкт фиграния фидачкот...

  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n Рік тому +1

    Фриянка кульбароса букта стика рубикон лояска кафритакуска бундароса кухкаруска

  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n Рік тому +1

    Гугразия мордокрет гудрофолт ияска

  • @tibodeclercq2131
    @tibodeclercq2131 7 місяців тому

    Gosh, he is 56 in this clip but he looks almost 80

  • @user-ul5ev2uu2n
    @user-ul5ev2uu2n Рік тому +1

    Дранкта гулизгат кадраскта гублана лугарот бензикта кугланкта лигазот трикдрастка

  • @iraneman1668
    @iraneman1668 Місяць тому

    This looks exactly like what Trump did. Only on 180 degree of the spectrum! and the saga is not yet unfolded!
    152 days and about 9 hours to the 2024 Presidential Election day of Tuesday, November 5, 2024...
    GOD BLESS AMERICA, then the whole world!

  • @judedesilva8366
    @judedesilva8366 Місяць тому +1

    #Biden2024

  • @tinka1015
    @tinka1015 Рік тому +2

    You forgot the part where he said he would have the blacks voting Democrat forever you left that part out like you always do

  • @gpop7911
    @gpop7911 Рік тому

    Funny how we forgot how hard he fought against it . Along with most democrats then.

    • @micah4242
      @micah4242 7 місяців тому

      Wrong. From the day he took office, it was his priority.

  • @bobby-ov9qn
    @bobby-ov9qn Рік тому +7

    How'd that war in Viet Nam work out for you Lyndon?

    • @kyleninehouser3624
      @kyleninehouser3624 Рік тому +3

      Stop it

    • @leemorton1
      @leemorton1 Рік тому +3

      How did Afghanistan work out for Trump? Abandoned like everything he did when the going got tough!

    • @StalinTheMan0fSteel
      @StalinTheMan0fSteel Рік тому

      @@leemorton1 It was Barack Obama who eccelerated the war in Afghanistan and who's drone campaign was declared a war crime by the United Nations. It was Joe Biden who was responsible for the disastrous withdrawal, according to the Defence department!

    • @maryjeanjones7569
      @maryjeanjones7569 Рік тому +3

      It was a crying shame sending 58,000 men to die for nothing.

    • @kyleninehouser3624
      @kyleninehouser3624 Рік тому

      That war was started by the industrial complex in 1950's & do you think war is something you just turn off? It doesn't work like that. You break it, you bought it. And all we do is break sh*t

  • @edwardoalvarez5566
    @edwardoalvarez5566 Місяць тому

    That's a very big mistake. The beginning of the end for the the U.S.

  • @GwensRealLoverAnthOny
    @GwensRealLoverAnthOny Рік тому

    Sounds good, as long as momma is cool with it I'm cool with it... Let me figure out how to setup a payment process..
    ...if Brittany G. Would have paid the tax maybe she wouldn't have had to sit in that Russian jail for so long... $3k is not much to pay.. schools cost taxpayers millions, librarys cost millions, roads and hywys cost multiple millions, homeless shelters cost millions... Everything costs money, nothing is cheap .. it is not unreasonable to ask drug dealers and prostitutes to pay their fair share in taxes... $3k cash is not asking too much for the freedom to sell pu**y and small amounts of drugs that people are already buying... If we show momma Rome that we can do this and keep the streets clean maybe after enough time Congress can legislate it... In the meantime we can conduct our own experiment.. if we give them a method to pay the tax and avoid arrest it can help keep them from operating in the dark where real criminal activity is dangerous... The girls deserve to operate in a safe environment... That one chick has around $90k in the bank...asking her to pay $3k is not asking much.... Or they can gamble and get arrested and risk having everything confiscated just like any other norml citizen that avoids paying their taxes... Sounds like a good deal to me...and I can still approach God with a clear consious about it....Love you America!
    This country has been a blessing to everyone living here... We're not asking for much.. just your fair share..

  • @halenatherepublicanprinces8260
    @halenatherepublicanprinces8260 7 місяців тому