On a chilly November day in 1863, a great man said, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”¹ One hundred years later, though, it was U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson who stated, “We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. We have talked for one hundred years or more. It is time now to write the next chapter, and to write it in the books of law.”² A little over six months later, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.³