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1964 Civil Rights Act ushered in new era of opportunity.(The Dallas Morning News)
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Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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July 2, 2004| Author:
Mittelstadt, Michelle
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Byline: Michelle Mittelstadt
WASHINGTON _ Forty years ago July 2, Congress dealt a deadly blow to the laws and practices that had long kept black Americans living apart, divided from the jobs, education and social activities open to whites.
With a stroke of his pen in a nationally televised ceremony on July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson gave life to the most sweeping civil-rights law since Reconstruction, irrevocably setting America on a new course.
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