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July 2, and the end of apartheid in America

Name: July 2, and the end of apartheid in America
Uploaded: 2023-07-02T10:22:00-0400
Duration: 2 min 43 s
Description: On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act, which ended our nation's apartheid system. Mark Updegrove, president & CEO of the LBJ Foundation, looks back on a watershed moment in American democracy when segregation was finally made illegal.

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act, which ended our nation's apartheid system. Mark Updegrove, president & CEO of the LBJ Foundation, looks back on a watershed moment in American democracy when segregation was finally made illegal.