He said the measure did not alter civil rights legislation passed in 1964.

Without him, we wouldn't have had the civil rights legislation of the 1960's.

A14 The fight over civil rights legislation has a different tone this year.

For the first time the Senate voted to apply a piece of civil rights legislation to itself.

He also signed civil rights legislation in 1957 and 1960 to protect the right to vote.

There he opposed most major items of civil rights legislation during the 1950s and 1960s.

These decisions have created a Catch-22 for modern federal civil rights legislation.

The 14th Amendment is the natural home of civil rights legislation.

She argued that this was a major factor in the government moving to support civil rights legislation.

We waited another 100 years for the civil rights legislation.