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Senator William Knowland; House Speaker Sam Rayburn; Minority Leader Joe Martin; and Senator Lyndon Johnson gathered on August 23, 1957, to announce that agreement had been reached on civil rights legislation. Passed four days later, the Civil Rights Act of 1957 had been watered down by the Senate but was nonetheless the first significant legislation to address African American civil rights since 1875.
History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “Agreement on Civil Rights Bill,” http://history.house.gov/Collection/Detail/30351 (February 21, 2013)
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