A memo reviewed by CBS News said Trump appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created ...

637), and as further amended by section 601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1960 (74 Stat. 90), is further amended as follows: (a) Insert "1" after "(a)" in subsection (a) and add at the end of ...

The 1960 Act directed U.S. District Judges to appoint ... Title IX--Appeals: Of great concern to civil rights demonstrators, this section permits appeal to a higher Federal court of any ...

The 1960 Presidential Election The presidential ... We are the advance guard of a massive moral revolution for jobs and freedom." The Civil Rights Act of 1964 Support for a federal Civil Rights ...

Image caption, In 1960, Black students held sit-ins at ... key in the struggle for equality for Black Americans. The Civil Rights Act was passed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ...

Thurmond spoke against the Civil Rights Act of 1957 for 24 hours and 18 minutes ... The longest one was in 1960, lasting 125 hours and 16 minutes from noon on Monday, Feb. 29, all the way to ...