Mike Lee: “In many respects, what sounded the death knell, not…”

“Kind of the beginning of the end of Jim Crow in many respects, started with the Supreme Court's ruling in Brown vs Board of Education. But there were still vestiges of Jim Crow alive and well after that. In many respects, what sounded the death knell, not immediately, but really started nailing down the end of Jim Crow was the enactment of the Civil Rights act of 1964. That law is instructive here, when that law was still a bill, a proposal. It was passed by the House of Representatives in March of 1964.” (1:47:14–1:47:30)

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