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Lyndon B. Johnson shake hands with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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50th Anniversary: Passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

President Barack Obama along with former presidents Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and others, gathered last week for a three-day Civil Rights Summit held at the LBJ (Lyndon B. Johnson) Presidential Library, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Bill’s passage and to honor Johnson’s legislative legacy.