The Republicans also made the Civil Rights and Voting Acts happen. Sen. Dirkson from Illinois worked with LBJ and got the GOP to support the bills. Gore’s Dad voted against both acts.
http://usconservatives.about.com/od/thinkersanddoers/a/Goldwater.htm
Goldwater supported desegregation and civil rights to varying degrees. He got himself into political hot water, however, with his opposition to legislation that would eventually turn into the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Goldwater was a passionate Constitutionalist, who had supported the NAACP and had backed previous versions of civil rights legislation, but he opposed the 1964 bill because he believed it violated states’ rights to self-govern. His opposition earned him political support from conservative southern Democrats, but he was detested as a “racist” by many blacks and minorities.