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[[image - black and white photograph of a large group of seated dignitaries gathered to watch President Johnson sign the Civil Rights Act into law]]

[[caption]] Monumental civil rights laws, the greatest invocation of human rights since the Civil War, were achieved by President Johnson after he directed an epic legislative struggle. Congressional and administrative leaders filled the East Room of the White House on July 2, 1964, to watch the President sign the Civil Rights Act. Below, Johnson passes out the pens with which he signed the Voting Rights Act on August 6, 1965. Civil rights leaders, from left, are Ralph D. Abernathy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Clarence Mitchell and Patricia Roberts Harris. "At long last," said the President, "the legal rights of American citizens — the right to vote, to hold a job, to enter a public place, to go to school — were given concrete protection."

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY . . . A LIVING POLICY

[[image - black and white photograph of President Johnson with Thurgood Marshall]]

President Johnson has made more historic, precedent-breaking appointments of Negroes in Government than any other President of the United States.

Equal opportunity is no longer a political promise, but a living policy of this administration.

Thurgood Marshall was appointed Solicitor General of the United States on August 11, 1965 by President Johnson.

On June 13, 1967 President Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He will be the first Negro in history to be so honored.

[[image - black and white photograph of President Johnson distributing pens used in the signing of the Voting Rights Act]]

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