The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was an amazing act to desegregate schools,restaurants,and job sites in the USA. The Act was passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 with famous civil rights movement activist Martin Luther King Jr. in attendance. The Act was originally proposed by former President John F. Kennedy but he did not get to carry out the plan due to his assassination on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald. However, there are many ideas on who assassinated him but the main theory is Lee Harvey Oswald. The Act was pushed further by Kennedy's death and many historians believed that is why the bill passed through Congress. There was still some opposition by some of the Southern States' Congress members. This bill lead to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which let all African-Americans vote at local voting ballots. This helped reinforce the 15th Amendment which let African-Americans vote. Most places in the South didn't desegregate until the early to mid 1970's and were forced by the Constitution to do so. If they didn't, the Army would intervene and walk students to school.