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Actually the majority of Democrats in both the House and Senate voted in favor of the act. So, no, the Democratic Party did not oppose the CRA. A bunch of white racists in the former Confederacy voted nearly unanimously against it, and they were Democrats (because Lincoln was a republican), but the racist wing did not represent a majority of the party.
Thank goodness those idiots changed parties after the CRA and the aftermath and now it's the GOP that has to worry with those dead enders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
Sadly, those 'dead enders' now run the party. Lincoln must be spinning in his tomb.