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- Description is exactly "An April 16, 1964 *Florence Herald* editorial noting that "Alabama's able senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, and scores of other forthright Americans" were fighting the upcoming Civil Rights Bill and arguing that the Civil Rights Bill was unconstitutional because "the elements of this bill that place enforcement and grave decisions in the hands of the attorney general . . . will break down the Constitution and prevent the United States from ever returning to its three-branch government as set up by the founding fathers." According to the *Herald*, no citizen should be deprived of the right to vote "because of color, race or creed. But the civil rights bill says nothing about people deprived of voting because of color or sex but would set up federal machinery for controlling state voting and registration laws." "
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