THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS LAW WAS SIGNED INTO LAW 50 YEARS AGO TODAY..............

A half a century has past when on this date in 1964, President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed into law the enactment of the Civil Rights Act, the most comprehensive effort to address the equality of ll Americans and elimination of prejudice, discrimination, and segregation, due to racial differences.  It came 187 years after our Declaration of Independence and the founding of the United States of America.  A coalition of other than Southern Democrats and large numbers of Republicans in the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate passed the landmark legislation that a century after the Civil War began to accelerate our national commitment to fully casting off the ravages of slavery and permitting unconditional freedom and equal opportunity under the mandate of Federal Law to every American citizen. How far forward in making progress fifty years later do you think we have come as the, "land of the free...with liberty and justice for all ?" May our reflection on that reality being realized continue to bear fruit as we prepare to commemorate the 238th anniversary of the 4th of July that set the American experience of Freedom for all our peoples in motion..............fr.tdp