An executive order issued by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965 required the federal government to follow the letter and spirit ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. once visited Juanita Craft in her 1,300-square-foot South Dallas home ...

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of enslaved people who became wealthy because of the institution of slavery.

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he ...

As part of his directives targeting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI), President Donald Trump revoked a landmark executive order signed by Lyndon B. Johnson to prevent ...

But his efforts go beyond DEI, with one recent order rescinding a Civil Rights-era rule ... rule signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which is still ...

Signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 sought to address systemic racism and prejudice that permeated American society at the time. It was the result of years ...

Civil rights leaders and elected officials are ... order revoking decades-old executive orders signed by Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon that established enforcement of anti-bias ...

Boxing and politics have long shared a storied history in America, where the sport has been wielded as a powerful symbol and ...

In a world where parents prefer unique baby names with meaningful origins, there’s no better source of inspiration than the land of the free and home of the brave.

After the “Bloody Sunday” march on March 7, in which many of the 600 protestors were beaten and hit with tear gas, Jews helped ramp up the pressure on President Lyndon Johnson to respond.