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GPV

(72,388 posts)
Mon Jul 3, 2023, 05:09 AM Jul 2023

"Celebrating July 2, America's other Independence Day"

Fifty-nine years ago today, legal apartheid in America came to an abrupt end. President Lyndon Johnson addressed the nation from the East Room of the White House:

"I am about to sign into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964 …. Let us close the springs of racial poison."

Afterward, ours was a changed nation, prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. The back of Jim Crow, with its false promise of "separate but equal" public accommodations, was broken, as America fulfilled its most sacred ideal: "All men are created equal."

Since then, the Civil Rights Act has become as fundamental to our national identity as any of our founding documents, deeply rooted in the fabric of a nation that strives to be "more perfect" and to move ever forward.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/celebrating-july-2-americas-other-independence-day/
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"Celebrating July 2, America's other Independence Day" (Original Post) GPV Jul 2023 OP
The Subversive 6 are out to implement Jim Crow 2.0. Hermit-The-Prog Jul 2023 #1
They sure are. GPV Jul 2023 #2
Give the Court a chance and they will declare the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional. sanatanadharma Jul 2023 #3

sanatanadharma

(3,769 posts)
3. Give the Court a chance and they will declare the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional.
Mon Jul 3, 2023, 06:59 AM
Jul 2023

Give the Court a chance and they will declare the Emancipation Proclamation unconstitutional.

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