Asian-Americans and the 1964 Civil Rights Act

On the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, let’s remember that it protected not just African-Americans. The legislation, enacted by Congress on July 2 of that year, broadly outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color and national origin.

This was altogether fitting and proper, for racial prejudice has extended beyond the brutality of slavery and Jim Crow that African-Americans experienced.