Attorneys for the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) will be in federal court Monday, May 12 to begin their defense of a portion of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which the current American ...

Limited Civil Rights Acts were passed in in 1957 and 1960. As a result of the 1957 Act, the United States Commission on Civil Rights was created. The act had the longest filibuster in US Senate ...

July 2 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1776, the Second Continental Congress formally adopted a resolution for independence from Britain. In 1788, it was announced in the U.S. Congress that the ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When large bipartisan majorities of ...