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Answer: LBJ was notoriously racist. He, eventually deciding that the black vote could be valuable, reluctantly signed the '64 Civil Rights Act along with various other politically expedient policies titled the "Great Society." To answer your original question, yes, the reason for LBJ's signing of the bill was purely political.