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I’ll leave the whys of your question to black posters to respond to, but as a history grad student I couldn’t let several falsehoods in what you were saying slip by. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was actually created by John F. Kennedy. (Kennedy was actually something of an opportunist who personally despised Dr. King and considered the Civil Rights Movement an embarassment. But he did push for the act as a way of courting black votes and trying to keep the US from being embarassed in the world press.) The act was pushed through thanks mostly to Lyndon Johnson, (a Southern Democrat) who used the memory of the assasinated president to do that. Most Republicans voted for it because they guessed (rightly) it would cost the Democrats most of their white Southern supporters. Most of the GOP did not vote for it for principle, but for selfish political gain. So really, neither party should be proud of its actions surrounding this act. Practically the only people who acted on principles on this were the leaders of the Civil Rights Movement (who today get blasted by many of the GOP as ‘poverty pimps’) and LBJ, the Democrat from South Texas.

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Name : ACC25132, Race : Mexican and American Indian, City : Phoenix, State : AZ, Country : United States, Occupation : Grad student in history, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, 

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