The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a cornerstone of U.S. civil rights law, prohibiting discrimination based on race, religion, national origin, and sex. This landmark legislation outlawed segregation ...

Here is a look at the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Considered the nation’s most important civil rights legislation since Reconstruction (1865-1877), it prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, ...

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 F. Kennedy’s assassination. More Republicans voted in ...

The march was a precursor to the historic signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by President Lyndon B. Johnson, who said the bill was "a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities ...

Read full article: 5 takeaways from Biden’s Austin visit to mark anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 President Joe Biden visited Austin on Monday to commemorate the 60th anniversary of ...

The executive order calls for the repeal of agencies’ disparate impact regulations under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and demands vague “appropriate action” (presumably dismissal ...

An internal Justice Department memo reviewed by CBS News said Trump appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Attorneys for the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) will be in federal court Monday, May 12 to begin their defense of a portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which the current American ...

After landmark legislation like the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, disparate-impact theory accreted steadily in American jurisprudence. The idea received its greatest endorsement in the ...