Cival Rights Act 1964 When the Government Stood Up For Civil Rights "All my life I've been sick and tired, and now I'm just sick and tired of being sick and tired. No one can honestly say Negroes are satisfied. We've only been patient, but how much more patience can we have?" Mrs. Hamer said these words in 1964, a month and a day before the historic Civil Rights Act of 1964 would be signed into law by …showed first 75 words of 1927 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1927 total…to make and change laws to ensure that it does not discriminate. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is perhaps the best example there is of the American government fulfilling its ethical obligation (Ash 803). For in the words of Thurgood Marshall, the great civil rights lawyer, and later first black man to serve on the Supreme Court, "Far too long, the doors have been shut to the Negro" (Ginsberg 146). The Civil Rights Act of 1964 opened them.