<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Meant to end race discrimination in employment, a ban on sex
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">discrimination was tacked on at the last minute.  Laughter broke out on
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #222222; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">the floor of Congress.  Many thought adding sex was a joke.

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. Meant to end race discrimination in employment, a ban on sex discrimination was tacked on at the last minute. Laughter broke out on the floor of Congress. Many thought adding sex was a joke.

On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.
Meant to end race discrimination in employment, a ban on sex
discrimination was tacked on at the last minute.&nbsp; Laughter broke out on
the floor of Congress.&nbsp; Many thought adding sex was a joke.

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