Prof. Lerone Martin Talks With NPR's Juana Summers on the Legacy of the Civil Rights Act

Sixty years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson strode into the East Room of the White House, and, seated at a table surrounded by lawmakers and civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King Jr., Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. The legislation banned discrimination based on race, color, sex, religion or nation of origin. But in the last 60 years, how well has the act lived up to that promise that Johnson laid out in his speech at the White House?

Lerone Martin (Martin Luther King, Jr. Centennial Professor and Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University) sat down with NPR's Juana Summers on the podcast, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, to discuss the legacy — and efficacy — of the Civil Rights Act on its 60th anniversary.