Civil rights

The 1964 Civil Rights Act is seen by many as the most important step in eliminating racism in the United States. In the house 80% of republicans and 63% of democrats voted for the law. In the senate 82% of republicans and 67% of democrats voted for the bill. Dwight D. Eisenhower got 39 percent of the Black vote in 1956, and Richard Nixon got 32 percent in his narrow loss to John F. Kennedy in 1960. It wasn't until the Civil Rights Act that the Blacks then voted 94% for Johnson who himself was a racist. The Blacks have continued to vote 90 plus percent democrat.