Far-reaching legislation provides framework for many challenging issues in America even 60 years later. Read more about the history.

A federal appeals court in San Francisco was set to hear arguments Tuesday afternoon on whether the Trump administration should return control of National Guard troops to California after they were ...

The arrests took place in 1964 after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., himself jailed, sought their help amid civil rights ...

President Donald Trump deployed the California National Guard on Sunday. Here's what we know about the protests.

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, ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles to stop protests against his immigration crackdown isn’t the first time an elected U.S. official has sent troops to ...

Trump authorized on Monday the deployment of an additional 2,000 National Guard members to help respond to protests in Los ...

In 1965, the federal government made a rare and decisive move. It sent National Guard troops into Alabama — not by invitation ...

The last time was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to protect Civil Rights marchers from ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

UniversalImagesGroup//Getty Images Lyndon B. Johnson in talks with Civil Rights leaders in the White House, including Martin Luther King, Jr. By Christmas 1963, Whittington's presence was quietly ...

Lyndon B. Johnson was vital in passing key pieces of civil rights legislation. Here we look at that legislation and everything he contributed to the movement. Camping World CEO defies lawsuits ...