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  • Say what you will about Lyndon Johnson, but on civil rights, he unquestionably did more than any president since the civil war, delivering the most important civil rights law ever, then following it up with an equally strong voting rights law a year later. He was also wise enough to know that laws alone wouldn't guarantee equality as long as one group had everything and another had nothing. That's what the Great Society was to address.

    If only it weren't for that blasted war in Asia...

  • get a clue, civil rights are granted by goverments, human rights arent.. and all these goverments are denying your human rights

  • Cover ur mouth when u cough....lol

    

  • hey he was ex communist

  • There is no doubt that this was LBJ's finest hour, but there have been fewer more tragic and catastrophic presidencies and he was no model of virtue either. Strong suspicion has surfaced to connect him with criminal activities, and some evidence too. I lived through his presidency, and believe me, it was a TERRIBLE time. The murder of his likely successor put an end forever to any hope for the common man; we are now ruled by corporate fascists and their agents.

  • As it said in a newsreel:"Lincoln made them free...Johnson made them equal."

  • @Suprkit actually "they"  already were both free and equal ..only unjust (enforced) circumstances made it otherwise ..but compared to having constant no stop generational social strife like Northern Ireland had i suspose this was a much better outcome then many other countries with the same problem

  • @TheVardiss22 Ok...

  • I'm so glad that segregationist Goldwater lost the presidential election 1964 in a landslide.

  • beautiful

  • couldn't all this be signed just with one pen lol

  • 47 years ago July 2

  • One of the worst days in Human history, I'd like to take all these evil criminals to todays Detroit, St. Louis or Any inter city in America to see what they caused.

  • Did you see LBJ give J. Edgar Hoover a pen and tell him he deserved one too. Hoover was the biggest Racist in that room he refused to put an African-American in the FBI.

  • Let's correct some of this garbage. LBJ was inspired to sign this into law after he'd heard news that his black female maid, had to use the bathroom in the woods, after traveling over 50 miles, with no white owned business willing to let her use their bathroom.

    It was JFK's decision to NOT turn this Bill into law before 1964, out of fear that he would lose the south, thus reelection.

    Let there be no doubt, LBJ was a wronged man, at the wrong place, at the wrong time, in American history.

  • johnson was not at all happy about this, i can tell he was under pressure...this struck a blow to whites.

  • @gogitta25 Ron Paul is anti-black

  • Ahahaha 1 person disliked this...stupid confederates.

  • @Guitardude440 just few viewers, people is waking up, uncivil act will be wiped out,........"none likes me, so i cry to progressive to let me in"...........sad

  • If anyone needs more evidence that blacks are stupid, you need go no further than this....60% of Democrats voted for the Civil rights act in 1964 as compared to 80% of Republicans. Then you go back to the Civil war: The war was started by Democrats to keep blacks as slaves. Gen. William T. Sherman even said in his memoirs that Democrats were completely anti-black..Yet to this day, blacks still vote overwhemingly for Democrats. Tell a black Lincoln was a Republican they will never believe you.

  • @JamesTKirkCobain

    You are an idiot. The ideals of the Republican party and the Democratic Party switched after the New Deal era of the 1930's. So since then, Republicans have been the conservative party, while the Democrats have been the liberal party.

    Learn your facts.

  • @JamesTKirkCobain

    You are an idiot. The ideals of the Republican party and the Democratic Party switched after the New Deal era of the 1930's. So since then, Republicans have been the conservative party, while the Democrats have been the liberal party.

    Learn your facts.

  • @JamesTKirkCobain

    Considering the Dems had a supermajority in the Senate, and 80+ more seats than the Repubs in the house, it seems only logical that more Dems would vote against than Repubs by sheer volume of votes. Funny how you forget to mention how the South's voting patterns shifted to the Repubs after this Act. If you're going to pick and choose facts please make sure they logically fit together.

  • @JamesTKirkCobain I feel you don't care about the politics behind it, you're just racist. All men are equal. And Yes I knew Lincoln was a Republican, so? (btw i'm black, and only 13) Plus republicans back then aren't the same as the ones today. So if you don't know what you're talking about, just keep your mouth shut.

  • @911FalseFlagTerror01 I see the KKK is alive and well in the ozarks. You're just another incest loving cracker.

  • Two thought provoketing points here, the FIRST ones to receive the pens SHOULD have gone to MLK, & the other civil rights leaders who WERE on the front lines getting beatings,arrested and killed !! Also how STRANGE is it to have J Egar Hoover there just a few feet from Dr. King who did NOT like blacks at all, tried to blackmail King into commiting suicide, called him a ape, said that King was the most nortorius liar in the U.S., strange bedfellows indeed !!!

  • This was the same year that DR King got his well deserved Nobel Peace Prize.History is full of significant moments that is what makes history and this is one of them it paid off look who is President today thought I personally look at the current president as a policy maker that card is so played it is who he is not what he is. America has come a long way but it still has a long way to go but it has alos beacome one of the most successful countries in the world. Not perfect but is is great.

  • this is the one Texan president that is doing a right thing,,,

    unlike Bush jr

  • where did you get this video ????

  • When I think of the LBJ Presidency I think of what would've happened had he not been President. What progress would we of not made had he not been President. How long would African Americans and other Minority Groups have to wait for their full Constitutional Right to be enforced in the United States. And other things.

  • soooooooo what happens to latinos??????????????

  • White liberal quilt at its finest.

    - United States of America 1776-1964

  • One of the most disgraceful and shameful days in American history. Johnson was a failure. His Great Society social experiment was a failure also. A war on poverty, redistribution of wealth scheme, also failed. Johnson allowed the hippie counterculture to exist unabated.

  • @ToxicOdiousOne you think equal rights for all americans is a failure? you think that you are somehow better than someone else simply because of the color of your skin?

  • Civil Rights Acts do not amend the Constitution. The 14th Amendment covered citizenship for freed slaves and their families only. Using a fascist civil rights act to apply it women and queers and creating affirmative discrimination is just unconstitutional.

  • @ToxicOdiousOne so... how is it that women and homosexuals dont have the same rights you do? what makes you so fucking high and mighty, huh?

  • Most damaging fascist since FDR. This act of defiance created modern Republicans and liberals. We have become more segregated and polarized ever since. It has had the exact opposite effect. It has divided our nation by irrekevant differences. The 1964 Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional.

  • @ToxicOdiousOne its not unconstitutional. have you ever actually read the constitution? check out section one of the 14th amendment, then section 5 of the same amendment. then in terms of voting, check out the 15th amendment. i know it will be difficult to wrap your pointy little head around all those words, but try REALLY hard and im sure you will succeed.

  • how many pens did he use

  • They were like kids getting the pens...

  • @borch1260 haha it's true

  • A very great day in America.

  • charlie you got one *cough *cough

    lol

    so can't wait till president Obama signs the Immigration Reform when it comes By His desk:)

  • One of life's little ironies that it would be a white southerner who would force the house and senate to pass the most sweeping civil rights law in American history.

  • I understand that Vietnam was a stain on the LBJ Presidency as it should be. But when I think of President Lyndon Johnson I think what wouldn't have happened had he not been President. How much longer would African Americans have to wait for their full American Citizenship under law with the 1964 Civil Rights Act & the 1965 Voting Rights Acts because LBJ was the only American Politician that could pass those Bills because he was the only Politician who had the Balls to take on the Right Wing.

  • @FrsBigeasy

    Totally agreed.

  • Johnson was a puppet for the military arms defense assembly/C.I.A. who wanted to stop at nothing to build the American Empire and conquer the world by winning in Vietnam.. Yes, he signed the civil rights bill but he didn't enact it or kick start in motion.. FUCK HIM

  • @MaralizeLegawana are you dumb? are u the type to believe in aliens from outer space too, check yourself into a mental facility

  • @MaralizeLegawana are you dumb or retarded Johnson was a legend... consensus is he was the greatest majority leader in the senates long history and he accomplished more in 5 years than Reagan and Bush sr. did in 12

  • 75 pens..i think so..

  • Not impressed by his presidential cough - heard it several times - rather rude failing to cover his spewing spittle.

  • That is plain awesome how many pens he is using

  • One of the rare good things to come out of the 60s, JFK/MLK/RFK assassinations, vietnam etc made the 60s a bad time but this day did a lot of good

  • This video is something extraordinary. Not only in watching Pres. Johnson signing such a revolutionizing piece of legislation, but also in witnessing a snippet of what the legislative process looked like back then. The process might still be very similar today, but here you have the ACTUAL historic images of some of the people you read about in text books doing what they did when they were alive.

  • That's a lot of pens.

  • i read somewhere he used seventy something pens...?

  • @cheeseonamonkey 75 pens!

  • Wow, that was moving. See, the 1960's wasn't all evil.

  • With the many videos I've seen from this time over the years, I've never seen this one, and it's lovely to see that Dr. King did get to see this historic moment, and at least see the promise that his dream was possible. Thanks for posting this.

  • Look at the man Johnson refers to as "Edgar" , as he shakes his hand. He is J. Edgar Hoover, who was the head of the FBI. To see J Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, in the same room, is bizarre.

  • @zxygh especially considering that Hoover spied on King and the fact that Johnson hated him I couldn't agree more

  • One of THE most historic moments in history...all the men, women, and children who died to ensure that America would at last accomplish its most basic principle that ALL MEN (WOMEN) were endowed with certain inalienable rights...and that day was only the beginning or an everlasting call to be a truly equitable and just society, no matter the race, politics, religion, gender, size, sexual identity, economic status, age or heritage.

  • @nancywonagain Historic?? What a fraud LBJ was! He was the guy who single handely stopped it from passing it when Eisenhower first proposed it. Unbelievable!!

  • that could possible

  • whats with all the pens?

  • Each of those pens is given to a political supporter, a friend, or some other dignitary. This way each can say he has the pen that signed the bill.

  • yeah i didn't realize that. I saw Obama do that recently...what I wouldn't do for one of those pens!

  • @paulkimpaul I heard the first one or so went to Martin Luther King.

  • @paulkimpaul amazing!!

  • Yes, He Was 55 Years Old, He Turned 56 Years Old, By The Way I Am Also From Texas.Keri Nowling,Formerly Of Austin, Texas, Now Residing In Seymour, Indiana.

  • Your an idiot

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