A Brief History of the Sit-In Movement

The Civil Rights Act
Among the provisions of the landmark legislation signed into law by President Lyndon Baines Johnson on July 2, 1964, were clauses that allowed the Federal Government to enforce desegregation and prohibited discrimination in public facilities, in government and in employment, thereby abolishing the notorious Jim Crow laws of the South. Among the many dignitaries invited to the signing was Martin Luther King Jr., above.

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