Five universities are under investigation by the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights for providing ...

The U.S. Department of Education investigation will determine whether the scholarships violate the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The University of Louisville was one of five schools under investigation, according to the U.S. Department of Education.

A DOE press release claimed the University's Dreamer Scholarship violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The Justice Department has launched an investigation into George Mason University's admissions process, the fourth such ...

The Trump administration doubled down on its arguments behind canceling funding for Harvard, invoking the Civil Rights Act.

The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate history, and after the long civil rights struggle, the Senate passed the act 73-27 in July 1964. It became law less than a year after President John ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color religion, sex or national origin and specifically Title VII of the bill prohibits employment discrimination ...

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 ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked the dawn of an era when Americans ... in June 1963 — for the first time in the nation’s history outlawed discrimination not just based on race and color, ...

After landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, disparate-impact theory accreted steadily in American jurisprudence.

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.