Loni Love Instagram – Following Dr. King’s assassination, amid a wave of riots in more than 100 cities across the United States, President Lyndon Johnson increased pressure on Congress to pass additional civil rights legislation. _____________________________________________________Provisions of the civil rights act of 1964 forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools. _____________________________________________________The civil rights act of 1968 expand the act of 1964 by prohibited discrimination in the sale or rental of a dwelling unit based on race, color, religion, or national origin …..it was signed April 11, 1968.