Experts estimate states have passed well over 100 restrictive voting laws in the last 12 years. The GOP-backed SAVE Act ...

A three-judge panel permanently blocked Alabama from using a state-drawn map that they said flouted their directive to draw a ...

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 ...

The Boston rally happened after President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and months before the enactment ...

King's son said he never thought racism would still be around and on the rise like it is today, as rally-goers urged activism ...

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President Lyndon ... Johnson signed the 24th Amendment abolishing poll taxes in 1964, saying, “There can now be no one too poor to vote. There is no longer a tax on his rights. The only enemy to ...