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1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts
KEYT 3 Santa Barbara· 6 days agoFollowing that law, US President Lyndon B. Johnson signed landmark civil rights bills including the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the 1968 Fair Housing <...
Daughter shares story of her father, Deputy Sheriff Fifield, during the Civil Rights era
The St. Augustine Record· 2 days agoJohns County, owner of a local gas station, and a 20-year Crescent Beach resident during early...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoSewell announced on the 57th commemoration of Bloody Sunday that she plans to reintroduce the Freedom to Vote Act upon her reelection ...
Another blow to American democracy from the Supreme Court
The Hill· 19 hours agoSouth Carolina NAACP put to rest any lingering doubts that its six-member conservative majority is...
At Alabama Juneteenth event, holiday seen as an opening day for ‘voting season’
Birmingham News· 11 hours agoJuneteenth has been a federal holiday for the past three years and commemorates the ending of...
Civic Nation BrandVoice: The Stakes For Business And The Ballot
Forbes· 1 day agoJohn Lewis understood voting to be the foundation of political freedom and made enormous sacrifices for it to become a right. Black Americans continue to ...
Democrats should use billboards to spotlight 'horrible' votes on women's rights | Opinion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 days agoThis happened only a week after the Senate failed to pass the “Right to Contraception Act,” a straightforward bill that would protect an individual’s < ...
Lawmakers push Rev. James Lawson for posthumous Congressional Gold Medal award
theGrio via AOL· 3 days ago“Lawson went to India and learned about nonviolence and Satyagraha, and he really helped impart that...
A new documentary tells the story of civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer in her own words
WBEZ 91.5 Chicago· 6 days agoFannie Lou Hamer started as a sharecropper but would go on to become one of the most passionate...
50 years ago: When Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Notre Dame
Gannett via AOL· 1 day ago"Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated," he said. The Civil Rights Act was...
