Astounding in their intellectual breadth, and almost frightening in their foresight, they provided the answer to the question posed here long ago: Does the United States have a national interest in ...

A young janitor’s role in thwarting an attempted bombing in 1958 is the latest addition to an Alabama oral history project ...

Millions of Americans will get Thursday off work for Juneteenth. Millions don't deserve it, especially Florida lawmakers and ...

On June 19, 1865, two years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers rode through ...

Labor and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph initially rejects a plea by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to call off the ...

One of them, Nicholson v. W.L. York, Inc., is potentially significant for litigants of discrimination claims under Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, 42 U. S. C. §1981 (“Section 1981 ...

This concern became the impetus for the 14th Amendment to “constitutionalize” the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The citizenship clause was a late addition to the amendment.

The reality is that Princeton has violated the principles of the Civil Rights Act. It may have gone further: in Morenoff’s estimation, its contracting policy likely ran afoul of New Jersey civil ...

Two of the most impactful anti-discrimination laws are Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (Section 1981) and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) (for more information ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the 1964 Civil Rights Act with the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. standing behind him. This year is the 60th anniversary of the act being enacted into law.