June 25, 2014, 9:39 a.m.
Fifty years ago, on July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law. After the assassination of John F. Kennedy and working with Martin Luther King Jr., Johnson vowed to continue the fight for the historic legislation.
Troops from the 327th Regiment, 101st Airborne escorting the Little Rock Nine African-American students up the steps of Central High. Operation Arkansas: A Different Kind of Deployment Photo by Courtesy of the National Archives September 20, 2007 Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division escort the Little Rock Nine students into the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.
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Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy. Photograph shows (left to right): Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor); Floyd McKissick (CORE); Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice); Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin Luther King, Jr. (SCLC); John Lewis (SNCC); Rabbi Joachim Prinz (American Jewish Congress); A. Philip Randolph, with Reverend Eugene Carson Blake partially visible behind him; President John F. Kennedy;Walter Reuther (labor leader), with Vice President Lyndona Johnson partially visible behind him; and Roy Wilkins (NAACP).
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