Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ...

D-N.Y., and civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. A new FBI tranche of 2,400 JFK records Last month, the FBI said it found some 2,400 new records linked to Kennedy's assassination as well.

A landmark Justice Department office created in the 1960's during the civil rights movement is marked ... President John F. Kennedy conceived of the office in the early 1960s, saying the federal ...