as politico recaps the agd outlawed racial discrimination in employment education and housing barbara szell segregation and all state sponsored public places such as schools buses parks and swimming pools and outlawed discrimination based on race color religion or national origin in hotels motels restaurants theaters and all other public accommodations engaged in interstate commerce exempting only private clubs without defining the term private but now fifty for you. years later the fight for civil rights still marches and joining us today to discuss this ongoing fight for equality as the country celebrates its independence from oppression is author educator and speaker baltimore's own do you walk thank you do you know it's a pleasure to have you and the signing of the civil rights back in sixty four i think everyone can agree is a pretty watershed moment in contemporary u.s. history but it also happened fifty years ago and i just want to start by looking at the victory. you know for black citizens of the united states you know how important was the least that victory coming into today. is