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Civil Rights Act

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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964 and turns and offers pen to Martin Luther King.

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Photographs by Cecil Stoughton are in the public domain. Book edited by Robert H. Myers, Greenhaven Press, Farmington Hills, MI, 2004.

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