Also he means the voting rights act. The civil rights act ended petty apartheid, the voting rights act ended authoritarian rule. By odd coincidence nothing to do with the constituencies that elected them, Republican elected officials and judges have spent every day since trying to destroy it.
Would be nice to do a "where are they now" on the VRA and one-party totalitarianism in the American south but again, that doesn't look like a aything to Shor and Stoller.