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

Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

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

Juanita J. Craft was a leading figure in the civil rights movement. President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. visited her home on Warren Avenue. She started 182 rural ...

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

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

He muscled through the Civil Rights Act over the objections of segregationists in his own party. (Johnson, a longtime Southern senator, would later remark to an aide that by doing so, he had "lost ...

This order canceled directives established by previous orders, including those issued by Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Barack Obama ... called LBJ’s EO11246 “a fundamental piece of the civil rights ...

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 ...

After the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was formed by the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson signed an executive order enforced by the Department of Labor to ...