The U.S. Department of Education has canceled a civil rights agreement with the Rapid City, South Dakota, school district ...

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, color, religion, sex ...

Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 A judge in Boston is holding an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in contempt after he detained a suspect while he was on trial ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ...