The President of the United States is widely considered to be the most powerful person in the world. Since the ratification ...

When large bipartisan majorities of Congress enacted and subsequently amended the nation’s major civil rights laws during ...

The Department of Justice division created by the landmark 1957 Civil Rights ... legislation Johnson pushed through in the ...

Sixty years ago, during the first six months of 1965, Lyndon Johnson made the decision to Americanize the conflict in Vietnam ...

Also emerging: a fierce response, a defense of voting rights that won an important early victory. How this fight unfolds will ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

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To make the constitutional promises a reality, we needed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 24th Amendment barring poll taxes, the Voting Accessibility for the Elderly and Handicapped Act of 1984 ...