With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government policies going back six decades that banned discrimination and required ...

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 ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...