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1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts
CNN via Yahoo News· 10 months agoRead CNN’s 1964 Civil Rights Act Fast Facts and learn about the law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.
What is the filibuster? A look at the Senate’s consequential quirk and debate on its future
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWASHINGTON – The filibuster — the controversial Senate rule able to advance or stall key legislation...
Civil Rights Act of 1964 Revisited 'History is ... relevant again': LBJ scholar says passage of...
The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa. via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFeb. 3—JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Daniel Perkins recalls growing up in a Greater Johnstown of the 1950s and 1960s that felt safe and friendly to him, but also divided, with areas he knew to avoid because ...
Celebrating July 2, America's other Independence Day
CBS News via Yahoo News· 10 months agoOn July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act, ending our nation's apartheid. Mark Updegrove, president & CEO of the LBJ...
MLK's once-lost speech at ASU takes on extra weight, 60 years later
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 months ago“We’ve got to get rid of the myth of time.” Martin Luther King, Jr. This year is the 60th...
House Democrats Introduce Transgender Bill of Rights
The Advocate via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFrom left: U.S. Reps. Ritchie Torres, David Cicilline, and Pramila Jayapal Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday announced a...
Granderson: Matt Gaetz gave the House a taste of the Senate's filibuster nightmare
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has derailed the work of Congress as effectively as a senator threatening...
On the Eve of Congressional Black Caucus Conference, A Lesson on How The CBC got Started
The Root via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe Relentless Pursuit 1971 was quite a year for America. Nixon was President and the streets were...
Author will speak in Columbia on Hubert Humphrey, fight for civil rights
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 1 month agoThough the Civil Rights Movement came to fruition in the 1950s and 1960s, one can arguably trace its...
The National Park Service awards $750k to the St. Augustine Beach Hotel
The St. Augustine Record via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe National Park Service has awarded the St. Johns Cultural Arts Center $750,000 for the continued...