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 ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, the Department of Justice and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission warned that DEI policies could violate the 1964 Civil Rights Act. That same day, it was revealed that President ...

*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 ...

History and Africana Studies professor Mary Frances Berry led a discussion on the significance of the 1964 civil rights movement at the Annenberg Public Policy Center on Oct. 10. The talk, which is ...

We come here today in deference to the memory of those stalwart patriots who on July 4, 1776, pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor to establish and defend the proposition that ...

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 ...

Rory McShane was among the generation of young nationalists who took to the streets in the late 1960 to demand civil rights. He looks back on that period and the path that took him to towards a distin ...

FILE - High school students from Scituate, Mass., register to attend Freedom School at Tremont St. Methodist Church in South End of Boston on Feb. 26, 1964. African American leaders and other civil ...

As the Democratic National Convention unfolds in Chicago, dozens gathered in Atlantic City to unveil a plaque honoring a historic event that occurred 60 years ago inside Boardwalk Hall. It was on Aug.