The landmark civil rights legislation of the mid-1960s has attracted considerable scholarly attention, deservedly so. Much of the analysis of this legislation has centered on the social and cultural conditions that gave birth to such laws as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. "It can be said of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that, short of a declaration of war, no other act of Congress had a more violent background," according...
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