GCL3421721: CIVIL RIGHTS ACT, 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson shortly before signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964. First row: Lady Bird Johnson, Robert Kennedy, Everett Dirksen, Hubert Humphrey, Charles Halleck, Emanuel Celler, John McCormack; second row includes Whitney Young, George Meany, and Martin Luther King Jr. Photograph, 2 July 1964. / Bridgeman Images