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How the Civil Rights Act Changed America
PBS NewsHour
Narrator PBS NewsHour
Publisher: NewsHour Productions
Summary
July 2, 2014 marked 50 years since President Lyndon Johnson signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, outlawing discrimination based on race, ethnicity and sex. Gwen Ifill is joined by Todd Purdum to discuss his new book, An Idea Whose Time Has Come, which tells the story of how the legislation came to be.
Duration: 9 minutes (00:08:37) Publishing date: 2014-07-02; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —
