Civil Rights Act signing recreated via Twitter

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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The LBJ Presidential Library is marking the 50th anniversary of the signing of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act by using technology that’s decidedly 2014.

Experts and archivists at the Austin library are taking to Twitter on Wednesday to re-enact President Lyndon B. Johnson’s day as it unfolded 50 years ago, when he signed the act into law on July 2, 1964.

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