With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government ...

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

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC. LBJ Library, photo by ...

Major Acts: Lyndon B. Johnson implemented the Civil Rights Act of 1964, prohibiting employment discrimination based on race, gender, religion, or national origin. This was followed by the Voting ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

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 ...

President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...

President Kennedy was an open supporter of civil rights. Examples of Kennedy’s actions are: Lyndon B Johnson had been Kennedy’s vice president. When he took up the role of president ...

Explore the pivotal role of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and the passage of landmark ...

Civil rights leaders convened at the National Press Club hours after Trump dismantled federal DEI policies. Marc H. Morial calls the rollback "an assault on civil rights," as coalitions mobilize to ...

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...