Cover photo of Senators who had key roles in the Civil Rights cloture battle after the cloture vote ( June 1964), Hubert H. Humphrey Photograph Collection, courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Civil Rights Act of 1964: the passage of the law that ended racial segregation / edited by Robert D. Loevy; with contributions by Hubert H. Humphrey, Joseph L. Rauh, and John G. Stewart.

p. cm. -- (SUNY series in Afro-American studies) Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7914-3361-7 (hc: alk. paper). -- ISBN 0-7914-3362-5 (pb: alk. paper)

1. Afro-Americans--Civil rights--History-- 20th century.

2. Segregation--Law and legislation-- United States--History--20th century. 3. United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964. I. Loevy, Robert D., 1935- II. Series.

KF4757.C59 1997

342.73′0873--dc21 97-687

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