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

President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office has sparked concerns he is rolling back decades of civil rights protections ...

President Donald Trump has issued an executive order titled "Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy" that ...

Measured in Trump time, it took them eons to get around to it, but the White House has finally taken the most important step it can to restore ... impact regulations accreted to the Civil Rights Act ...

His work helped push forward milestone legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights ... of the civil rights movement’s most important victories, notably the 1963 March ...

More recently, Trump signed an order that would repeal or amend provisions of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, saying his change ... “It’s important that we, who organized in the 1960’s civil ...

The 60-year-old landmark Civil Rights Act outlawed ... faced major hurdles and opposition particularly during the Jim Crow-era, but was signed into law in August of 1964 by President Lyndon ...