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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1776, the Second Continental Congress formally adopted a resolution for independence from Britain. In 1788, it was announced in the U.S. Congress that the ...

May 28 (UPI) --Federal funding could be withheld from U.S. universities that don't abide by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Education Secretary Linda McMahon said on Wednesday. McMahon was ...

*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 ...

The origin and enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / David B. Filvaroff and Raymond E. Wolfinger -- What light does the Civil Rights Act of 1875 shed on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 / J. Morgan ...

Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul told Chris Mathews on MSNBC Friday that he would not have voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, if he were a member of congress at the time. Though ...

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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 ...