Editor: David Tunnel (historical U-turn from Monday) blew right past the 1964 Civil Rights Act in his editorial on the importance of the 1960’s (and Republicans) to civil rights during ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended discrimination. Understand this 1964 Act's key rules, its landmark provisions against race ...

Earlier civil rights legislation was cautiously and narrowly drawn, designed primarily to anticipate and avoid Negro protest.

Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...

Cory Booker's speech passed the record set by South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

They realized Thurmond understood he couldn’t stop the Civil Rights Act, no matter how long he managed to speak. There had been a “gentleman’s agreement” to avoid a filibuster.

By skirting the Senate parliamentarian’s power to police the boundaries of reconciliation bills, the GOP is putting the ...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for a standing filibuster by speaking for 25 hours, surpassing the 1957 record of Sen. Strom Thurmond, who attempted to filibuster the Civil Rights Act.

Editor: David Tunnel (historical U-turn from Monday) blew right past the 1964 Civil Rights Act in his editorial on the importance of the 1960’s (and Republicans) to civil rights during ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 marked the dawn of an era when Americans set in motion an irreversible legal agenda to guarantee freedom, liberty and pursuit of happiness for every citizen.

This year marks the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act by President Lyndon Baines Johnson. The long-debated and filibustered act was enacted to prohibit discrimination in ...