Expanding Civil Rights – Roll Call

Expanding Civil Rights

By Roll Call Staff

Posted January 30, 2008 at 2:24pm

Then-President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968 in the Oval Office on April 11, 1968, a week after the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. The act went beyond the 1964 Civil Rights Act by providing a means of enforcing a prohibition on discrimination in housing practices.

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