WASHINGTON, July 2 -- President Trump issued the following statement on the 55th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: "On this day 55 years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing discrimination based on race, religion, sex, or national origin. Today, we celebrate this monumental legislation and recommit ourselves to the noble mission of advancing equality, justice, and freedom. "The United States was founded on the fundamental truth tha  more

NEW YORK, July 2 -- Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-New York, issued the following statement in recognition of the 55th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act, signed into law in 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson: "On this day in history in 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the historic Civil Rights Act. The most sweeping civil rights legislation passed by Congress since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, the Civil Rights Act prohibited racial segregation in pub  more