Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Lyndon B. Johnson (C) signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act as the Rev. Martin Luther, standing behind him, and others watch ...

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 ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Lonnie G. Bunch III is the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN. During the 1960s, our family road ...

Dr. Russ Wigginton is the president of the National Civil Rights Museum. Since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed 60 years ago on July 2, America has experienced great strides toward attaining ...

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 ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2 of that year. In a nationally televised address, LBJ proclaimed that the “purpose of the law is simple.” It doesn’t “give ...

The Civil Rights Act — the landmark law prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex or national origin — passed 60 years ago. During the Civil Rights Movement, Elaine Lee Turner and ...

“The issue isn’t that he is unaware of the history or lacks education–it’s that deception is the point,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said of Trump in a statement to theGrio. President Donald Trump ...

"We're still in the struggle to save Black men's bodies and White men's souls," Andrew Young says ...

July 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1776, the Second Continental Congress formally adopted a resolution for independence from Britain. In 1788, it was announced in the U.S. Congress that the ...