CSPAN3 American Artifacts December 6, 2015
Nation, upon the signing of the act on july 2, 1964. This is the copy that was put into the teleprompter. My fellow americans, im about to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I want to take this occasion to talk to you about what that law means to every american. When hundred 88 years ago this week, a small band of valiant men began a long struggle for freedom. Needed six drafts of the speech, he did six drafts of the speech, and then added extemporaneously the word long to indicate the many decades and the slow progression towards realizing civil rights. As a culmination of the strugg...