President Donald Trump's orders on civil rights are a stunning blow to America’s 60-year fight against discrimination.

Department of Education Organization ... co-educational institution sued to stop enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the U.S. government's request for an assurance of compliance ...

The Department of Education was created in 1979, but its origins date back much farther. Take us back to post-Civil War, when ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

President Kennedy was an open supporter of civil rights ... The 1964 act sped up desegregation - ending Jim Crow laws and the idea of 'separate but equal'. The government could now try people ...

of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (42 U.S.C. 1975(b); 71 Stat. 634) is amended to read as follows: "(b) Each member of the Commission who is otherwise in the service of the Government of the United ...

The job of enforcing the administration’s position on those issues will largely fall to the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division ... hasn’t focused on the traditional mission of the Civil Rights ...

While conservative activists praise these efforts as a return to meritocracy, left-leaning activists believe these actions ...

which the Justice Department said violated the 1964 Civil Rights Act. "No one may be denied the right to use hotel facilities because of their national origin," said Assistant Attorney General ...

The Department of Justice sent a memo to the interim director of the civil rights division, ordering a freeze to all ongoing litigation and a stop to any new cases.