Attorneys for the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) will be in federal court Monday, May 12 to begin their defense of a portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which the current American ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 19, 1964, as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed the U.S. Senate. Editor’s note: This ...

In 1963, Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., a white Democrat, risked his political life by testifying before Congress in favor of the bill that would become the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was the only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Lyndon B. Johnson (C) signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as the Rev. Martin Luther, standing behind him, and others watch ...

Donald Trump stated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hurt White people by causing reverse discrimination. The author argues Trump's administration has weakened civil rights protections and dismantled ...

Chair Andrea Lucas is returning the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission back to its early civil rights movement roots.

Did you know that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 wasn’t supposed to include job protections for women? Title VII—the section that covers job discrimination—included race, color, religion and national ...

In a recent interview, President Trump said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in white people being “very badly treated.” The 1964 Civil Rights act outlawed discrimination based on race, ...

*Its killers were many: a GOP-led gravediggers campaign determined to “make America great again” by undoing decades of progress, a U.S. Supreme Court that dismantled affirmative action, voting ...

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