African American History Month 2014: 2014 Theme

This groundbreaking study recreates the debates in Congress and the White House that led to the breakthrough laws of 1964 and 1965 - the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act - which banned discrimination against minorities and women. The author follows the implementation of these policies through a maze of federal agencies and court decisions.

Lyndon Baines Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr., were thrust together after John F. Kennedy's assassination. Both men began a delicate dance of accommodation that moved them, and the entire nation, toward the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing on newly available sources, Judgment Days presents this momentous period with thrilling immediacy.

This is the story of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, through its extraordinary fifty years at the heart of the civil rights movement and the struggle for justice in America.

A number of those who participated in congressional enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 clearly understood the historical significance of what they were doing. This book brings together four first person accounts of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.