Discuss the history of the Civil Rights Act, what president proposed it and got it passed and how it was eventually passed. From a perspective of...

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history of the Civil Rights Act spans two presidential administrations in the turbulent period
of 1960s social change.  As early as June 1963, President Kennedy gave words to what would
become the Civil Rights Act.  In a speech following the children's protests coming out of
Birmingham, Alabama, President Kennedy articulated his vision of Civil Rights as "giving
all Americans the right to be served in facilities which are open to the publichotels,
restaurants, theaters, retail stores, and similar establishments", as well as "greater
protection for the right to vote."  Kennedy's words resonated with the nation in Civil
Rights as existing on economic, social, and political grounds.  Kennedy's vision of Civil Rights
was transformative because it spoke to how the denial of Civil Rights amounts to a denial of
human rights and a disenfranchisement of the American Dream, an idea that was rooted in post
World War II American visions of prosperity.  President Kennedy started the...

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