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The Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library & Museum hosted President Biden during a commemoration of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The 60th anniversary events featured civil rights veteran and ...
August 4, 1964 – The FBI finds the bodies of the three missing civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. They had been shot and buried beneath a dam.
Southern Education Foundation (SEF) President Raymond Pierce speaks out ahead of SEF’s May 12 federal court defense of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, challenging efforts by the current ...
60 years ago, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 changed American justice President Lyndon B. Johnson said the landmark law aimed to “eliminate the last vestiges of injustice.” July 1, 2024 More ...
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.
The Civil Rights Act gave way to reform, but flaws in the language left the job unfinished As we commemorate the anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, remember much more was left to be ...
Molly Ball: No, the Voting Rights Act is not dead. M ore than 30 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the legal scholar Cass Sunstein argued for understanding “the expressive function of ...
August 4, 1964 – The FBI finds the bodies of the three missing civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi. They had been shot and buried beneath a dam.
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.