An Iowa law removing gender identity as a protected class from the state’s civil rights code took effect Tuesday, the first ...

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

With the civil rights movement gathering momentum, and violence escalating in the South, President Lyndon B. Johnson, a politician from Texas, signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Understanding the civil rights movement as a labor and economic movement. Legalized segregation was an economic system that determined people’s livelihoods, says history professor Robin D.G. Kelley.

History suggests that periods of toleration of gay men and lesbians can swiftly end if the public senses an overreach.

America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968.

CBS News poll surveyed Americans on what has been achieved by the civil rights movement and the Voting Rights Act 50 years after Selma Latest U.S.

BARBARA LEE: The role of women in the civil rights movement is extremely important and, actually, women were central to the civil rights movement. JONATHAN CAPEHART: That’s Rep. Barbara Lee (D ...

It refers to the “Civil Rights Movement” once. Under the updated standards, students are supposed to begin learning about the Civil Rights Movement as early as third grade, and delve deeply into the ...