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1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts - ABC17NEWS
ABC17 NEWS· 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...
Another blow to American democracy from the Supreme Court
The Hill· 20 hours agoSouth Carolina NAACP put to rest any lingering doubts that its six-member conservative majority is...
Gateway - The Root
The Root· 2 days agoTo Sewell, voting rights aren’t just policy but personal as she was raised in Selma...the main hub where our civil rights heroes had organized. Now, as Alabama and other southern states begin ...
At Alabama Juneteenth event, holiday seen as an opening day for ‘voting season’
Birmingham News· 12 hours agoJuneteenth has been a federal holiday for the past three years and commemorates the ending of...
Democrats should use billboards to spotlight 'horrible' votes on women's rights | Opinion
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel via Yahoo News· 2 days agoIt would have prohibited any laws that...something the US Supreme Court ruled on in Griswold v. Connecticut of 1965. This is the same case that in 2022 ...
Juneteenth: a celebration amid deep concerns
Dallas Morning News· 1 day agoWhen Union Gen. Gordon Granger rode into Galveston on June 19, 1865, to announce that the Emancipation Proclamation would be enforced in Texas, as in the...
Hammond praises local NAACP at Juneteenth celebration
The Times of Northwest Indiana· 11 hours agoWith all that has happened in race relations in this country, work remains. That includes developing...
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...
The probability of a Fukushima-like disaster at Diablo Canyon is small — but not zero | Opinion
San Luis Obispo Tribune via Yahoo News· 4 days agoThis has unfortunately led them to seek out the most nasty and brutish individual, who also has the...
