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English: President Lyndon B. Johnson at the signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act. White House East Room. People watching include Attorney General Robert Kennedy, Senator Hubert Humphrey, First Lady "Lady Bird" Johnson, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., F.B.I. Director J. Edgar Hoover, Speaker of the House John McCormack. Television cameras are broadcasting the ceremony.
Date Taken on 2 July 1964
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http://lbjlibrary.org/collections/photo-archive/photolab-detail.html?id=1107 (Lyndon Baynes Johnson Library & Museum photo archive, serial number C522-2-WH64) Smaller version of same at:

http://teachpol.tcnj.edu/amer_pol_hist/thumbnail448.html
Author O. J. Rapp

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