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It was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the [[United States Congress]] since the Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1875. Johnson told Sen. [[Richard Russell]],<ref>Said to Senator Richard Russell, Jr. (D-GA) regarding the Civil Rights Act of 1957. As quoted in [http://books.google.com/books?id=HS9aAAAAYAAJ ''Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream''] (1977), by Doris Kearns Goodwin, New York: New American Library, p. 155.</ref>
{{quotebox|These Negroes, they're getting pretty [[uppity]] these days and that's a problem for us since they've got something now they never had before, the political pull to back up their uppityness. Now we've got to do something about this, we've got to give them a little something, just enough to quiet them down, not enough to make a difference. For if we don't move at all, then their allies will line up against us and there'll be no way of stopping them, we'll lose the [[filibuster ]] and there'll be no way of putting a brake on all sorts of wild legislation. It'll be [[Reconstruction ]] all over again.}}
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