Disparate impact is a critical tool for enforcing civil rights laws. Prohibiting intentional discrimination is important, but ...

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Anti-DEI policies have revived the racist and sexist practices that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was designed to eliminate.

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 ...

The 60th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson ... Following these events, Johnson accepted a congressional invitation to address the nation on civil rights. Historically an awkward public ...

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 ...

According to one account, President Lyndon B. Johnson allegedly said, “What is that goddamned n**ger preacher doing to me? We gave him the Civil Rights Act of 1964, we gave him the Voting Rights ...

He muscled through the Civil Rights Act over the objections of segregationists in his own party. (Johnson, a longtime Southern senator, would later remark to an aide that by doing so, he had "lost ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 23 (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he ...