The president who first introduced the Civil Rights

Act was

Answer: John F. Kennedy

Explanation: John F. Kennedy was the president who proposed this act. The 1964 bill was proposed during his Report to the American People on Civil Rights on June 11, 1963. However, he was assasinated in November of 1963. His bill was signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson just a few hours after House approval on July 2, 1964.

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with at least 75 pens, which he handed out to congressional supporters of the bill such as Hubert Humphrey and Everett Dirksen and to civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Roy Wilkins.