{"id":4386,"date":"2014-07-02T12:58:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2014-07-02T12:58:10","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T16:58:10","slug":"50th-anniversary-of-the-civil-rights-act-of-1964","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4386","title":{"rendered":"50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4387\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4387\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/crdl\/id:ugabma_wsbn_42587\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4387\" alt=\"WSB-TV newsfilm clip of attorney Constance Baker Motley commenting on the lawsuit against Lester Maddox and the Pickrick restaurant for discrimination against African Americans, Atlanta, Georgia, 1964. Clip available at http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/crdl\/id:ugabma_wsbn_42587\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Constance-Baker-Motley-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Constance-Baker-Motley-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Constance-Baker-Motley.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WSB-TV newsfilm clip of attorney Constance Baker Motley commenting on the lawsuit against Lester Maddox and the Pickrick restaurant for discrimination against African Americans, Atlanta, Georgia, 1964, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0939, 19:30\/25:14, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Ga, as presented in the Digital Library of Georgia. Clip available at http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/crdl\/id:ugabma_wsbn_42587<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. \u00a0The\u00a0act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson just a few hours after House approval on July 2, 1964. The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels. It also \u00a0banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in public places such as swimming pools, libraries, and public schools. Spend some time looking through the numerous educator resources and materials from archival collections that are available from the Civil Rights Digital Library at \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crdl.usg.edu\/events\/civil_rights_act_1964\/\">http:\/\/crdl.usg.edu\/events\/civil_rights_act_1964\/<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. \u00a0The\u00a0act was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson just a few hours after House approval on July 2, 1964. The act outlawed segregation in businesses such as theaters, restaurants, and hotels. It also \u00a0banned discriminatory practices in employment and ended segregation in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4386\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;50th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dlg-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4391,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}