This part of your post is true. This Act was basically a re-write of the second Civil Rights Act passed by Republicans over Democrat opposition.... in 1875. Here's a condensed history lesson of Civil Rights legislation for you:
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The strong Republican majority in congress overrode a veto from Democrat President Andrew Johnson for the first time in US history and passed the Civil Rights Act of 1868. The racist Johnson then refused to enforce it.
Republicans passed the Civil Rights act of 1875, which was struck down by the Democrat majority Supreme Court in 1883. Republicans tried again in 1957, watering down a Civil Rights Act to overcome stiff Democrat opposition. 1960 brought a third Republican Civil Rights Act, pushed through after nearly a week long Democrat filibuster.
President John Kennedy became the first Democratic President to embrace the conservative ideals of the Radical Republicans. Democratic President Lyndon Johnson, who himself grew up impoverished in the South, pushed his party further, and supported the Republican sponsored 1964 Civil Rights Act. This Act was essentially a re-writing of the 1875 legislation, and was passed against chief opponents Albert Gore Sr. and a 14 hour filibuster by former Klansman Robert Byrd, still a Democrat senator to this day. Johnson was instrumental in strengthening the Act in 1968.
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Today's political parties bear little resemblance to the parties of the later half of the 1800's that carried the label Republican and Democratic. The issue of blacks and segregation in this country have been historically divided by a line; the Mason Dixon line, not party lines...
The Civil Rights Act of 1957 - You mean the recommendations of President Truman's Civil Rights Committee that Eisenhower adopted from 1947?
Republican sponsored 1964 Civil Rights Act??? I didn't know liberals Jack Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson were Republicans... you learn something new every day!
To call progressive ideas like equal rights for blacks
conservative ideals is beyond stupid... it is true pea brainism...LOL