Six decades after the federal government ordered Concordia Parish to desegregate its schools, the district remains racially ...

Federal authorities are moving to drop a racial discrimination lawsuit against the Sheetz convenience store chain, part of a ...

“It’s shocking and appalling what this administration is doing,” said Jin Hee Lee, a lawyer at the Legal Defense Fund, the group that won landmark cases during the civil rights era under the ...

A landmark Justice Department office created in the 1960's during the civil rights movement is marked for closure by the Trump administration, raising fears of a loss of generations of work ...

During this era, which rose to prominence ... Though some think that the Civil Rights Movement began in the 1950, two Supreme Court decisions mark two important dates within it.

Sixty years ago, on August 22, 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer, a Black former sharecropper from Sunflower County, Mississippi, who had become a civil ... era of liberal ascendancy, such as the Voting ...

This is what the “Civil Rights” era has come to. And this is why the “Civil Rights” era is over. When you are somehow akin to James Earl Ray for standing up to street criminals on subways ...

Johnson in 1965. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which is still law today — had a loophole that excluded federal employees. Johnson signed the Equal Employment Opportunity rule to close the ...

We often bunch all of these activists together in the Civil Rights Era section of Black History. However, each of them made their own unique mark on the movement through the ways they stood boldly ...