The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act (64 page)

Senators Mike Mansfield (Mont.) and Everett Dirksen (Ill.) during the Civil Rights Act filibuster.

Rogers Photo Archive

Pro–civil rights senators celebrate the defeat of the Southern filibuster, June 10, 1964. From left: Kenneth Keating (N.Y.), Clifford Case (N.Y.), Everett Dirksen (Ill.), Jacob Javits (N.Y.), Leverett Saltonstall (Mass.), John Pastore (R.I.), Hubert Humphrey (Minn.), Warren Magnuson (Wash.), Hugh Scott (Penn.).

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President Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act as senators and civil rights leaders look on, July 2, 1964.

Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library

Some businesses, like Lester Maddox’s cafeteria in Atlanta, closed shop rather than integrate after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, but most acquiesced quietly.

Rogers Photo Archive

A Note on the Author

Clay Risen is a staff editor for the
New York Times
op-ed section. Previously he served as an editor at the
New Republic
and as the managing editor of the noted quarterly
Democracy: A Journal of Ideas
. His journalism has also appeared in a wide variety of publications, including the
Atlantic
,
Smithsonian
, and the
Washington Post
. His first book,
A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination
, published in 2009, received much critical acclaim; he is also the author of
American Whiskey, Bourbon and Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s Favorite Spirit
and a coeditor of
The
New York Times
: Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln’s Election to the Emancipation Proclamation
. He lives in New York.

By the Same Author

A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination

The New York Times: Disunion: Modern Historians Revisit and Reconsider the Civil War from Lincoln’s Election to the Emancipation Proclamation
(coeditor)

American Whiskey, Bourbon and Rye: A Guide to the Nation’s

Favorite Spirit

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