How Did Eisenhower Influence The Civil Rights Act Of 1964

What is important to note is that many laws and orders were enacted yet segregation, and racism persisted which further adds to the importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Eisenhower had a much different approach to Civil Rights than his predecessors. This was evident due to his laissez-faire attitude about civil rights. He believed that the racial situation could be solved by local communities without the federal government intervening, in particular the Executive Branch. It is with this prior knowledge that one can understand he did not focus the majority of his attention to this issue. He did not oppose Civil Rights and this was shown in 1957, when Eisenhower showed his support of the 1954 ruling when he sent Federal Troops into Little

There were acts before it that helped lead to the development of the one in 1964. They all addressed the similar issues, but obviously if there had to be more created than the ones that were initially created did not accomplish their goals. Two of those acts in particular were the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and 1960. These acts dealt primarily with voting rights. Unfortunately not contained in these acts were policies and practices that would eliminate discrimination in public accommodations or employment. These types of discrimination were to be dealt with in the C. R. A. of 1964(Rhodes). It was the shortcomings of these Acts that led to the social movement that will live in the bowels of American history forever called the Civil Rights

The Civil Rights Act passed the House on Feb. 10, 1964 by a margin of 289-16. Further break down of the voting saw (152 Democrats say yes, 91 said no 136 Republicans said yes while 35 said no.) This meant that there was less opposition on the Republican side than there was on the Democratic side. That leads to the natural question of why did the Bill that was introduced by a Democratic president, face such resistance by his own party. The primary reason that Republican support was higher than Democratic support even though the legislation was pushed hard by a Democratic president; Lyndon B. Johnson is that the opposition to the bill primarily came from Southern lawmakers. In the mid 1960s, the South was overwhelmingly Democratic a legacy of the Civil War and Reconstruction, when the Republican Party was the leading force against slavery and its legacy. Because of this history, the Democratic Party in the 1960s was divided between Southern Democrats, most of whom opposed civil rights legislation, and Democrats from outside the South who more often than not supported it. Basically this reverts to the thinking discussed in depth earlier in this work that stated that many Americans felt the American Negro was innately inferior. The Southern Democrats held to that belief and this was reflected in their