Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s broke the pattern of public facilities’ being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period (1865–77). Like this content? Follow us @Clips | Clips

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy's successor, Lyndon B. Johnson. Watch the late U.S. Rep. John Dingell reflect on the impact of the landmark legislation: https://comca.st/3ntOejq | Voices of the Civil Rights Movement