Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act to fortify the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote, and end ...
The court Supreme Court is telling us that self-confessed discrimination is the only kind that’s forbidden.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The long-debated and filibustered act was enacted to prohibit discrimination in ...
Dr. Russ Wigginton is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 60 years ago on July 2, America has experienced great strides toward attaining ...
The Voting Rights Act, among the most consequential pieces of U.S. civil rights legislation, was signed into law in August ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with a renewed promise to prosecute hate crimes and threats of violence and to protect voting ...
Historically, the Voting Rights Act wasn’t passed long ago — and its erosion now threatens hard-won racial progress.
The Blaze columnist Auron MacIntyre tried to tie the Civil Rights Act to modern-day diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts earlier this week. He said that the Civil Rights Act created “institutional ...
Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...
July 2 marked the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. President Joe Biden will be in Austin on Monday to deliver an address at the LBJ ...
During the 1960s, our family road trips from our New Jersey home to visit relatives in North Carolina were always full of education and adventure, but they were also tempered by the reality of ...