The Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed decades of law that permitted citizens to discriminate against others just because of ...

Civil rights-era policies to remedy racism resulted in White people being 'very badly treated,' Trump alleged in a recent ...

U.S. senators from Illinois, Democrat Paul Douglas and Republican Everett Dirksen, made consequential contributions to civil ...

In Hawaiʻi, where people of many differing backgrounds, races, nationalities and beliefs live and work together, Martin ...

Trump wants people to believe that if they don’t get a job, can’t buy a new home or don’t succeed, it’s not their fault. A ...

"The Civil Rights Act did not give Black people special treatment," said the youngest daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

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 ...

Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster and Lena Horne were among the stars who appeared for MLK and civil rights.