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 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the most significant civil rights achievements in U.S. history. This new law made it ...

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 ...

The Department of Justice officially rewrote the playbook on federal civil rights enforcement Tuesday, finalizing a rule that ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published on June 19, 2024. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On June 19, 1964, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was ...

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The long-debated and filibustered act was enacted to prohibit discrimination in ...

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

Read full article: 5 takeaways from Biden’s Austin visit to mark anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 President Joe Biden visited Austin on Monday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the ...