Our nation finally got started on that "all men are created equal" thing:

On this day in 1964, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law the historic Civil Rights Act in a nationally televised ceremony at the White House.

Of course it was LBJ and he had some pre-Colbert truthiness in him:

Legend has it that, as he put down his pen, Johnson told an aide, "We have lost the South for a generation," anticipating a coming backlash from Southern whites against Johnson's Democratic Party.

It's been more than a generation, southern whites.  Time to grow up...