“While segregation is still illegal, this change sends a CLEAR message,” said civil rights attorney Ben Crump ... contracts that prohibited segregated facilities, including water fountains and ...
and drinking fountains. This ban on segregated facilities was put into place by Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 after he signed the Civil Rights Act, which outlawed discrimination based on race ...
In its latest move to eliminate race-conscious policy across the federal government, the Trump administration rescinded a clause in federal contracts that prohibited segregated facilities ...