Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

1866, Congress overrode President Andrew Johnson’s veto to enact the nation’s first civil rights law. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 declared freed Black Americans were citizens entitled to ...

As part of the successful effort to advance racial equality, many mass gatherings and actions were performed over the ...

In 2005, though, Mr. Eastman explained that the 14th Amendment was based on a previous law, the 1866 Civil Rights Act, “which quite clearly exempted from the automatic citizenship provisions children ...

Trump cites the Civil Rights Act of 1866, written two years before the 14th Amendment. The Act says that citizenship is denied to “Indians not taxed” and those subject to any foreign power. The 14th ...

A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, recalls the momentous sit-in that ignited a nationwide civil rights movement as he ...

After the Justice Department filed a written defense of the president's birthright citizenship order, some people feared an ...

“It just boggles my mind.” In this case, the Trump administration is leaning on 19th-century laws, like the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and deployed arguments that call into question not just ...

In the Trump administration’s arguments defending his order to suspend birthright citizenship, the Justice Department called into question the citizenship of Native Americans born in the United ...