Garrow is a professor of history and law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. In an article he wrote titled "The Voting Rights Act in Historical Perspective" he wrote about the importance of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He stated, "Although many commentators realized even at the time of its enactment how modest the initiative of the 1957 law, it nevertheless heralded a new phase in the fight for voting rights." In 1960 Senator Johnson oversaw the passage of another Civil Rights Act, and in 1964 as president he signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law; a year after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. They were the most comprehensive pieces of civil rights legislation in the history of