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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...