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Texas Senate Votes to Take away Required Classes on Civil Rights
The Texas Senate passed law on Friday that would end the requirement that public schools include writings on…
C.T. Vivan’s civil rights work grows in significance after his demise
Jo Anna Vivian Walker, Denise Vivian Morse, Kira Vivian, Mark E. Vivian, Charisse Vivian Thornton and Al VivianThe…
Frank Askin, Fierce Defender of Civil Liberties, Dies at 89
Frank Askin was born on January 8, 1932 in Baltimore to Abraham and Rose (Mervis) Askin. His father, whose family…
Civil Rights Act was really a bipartisan act of Congress | Letters To Editor
Speaking of revisionist history: In her letter to the editor of July 14, Patricia…
Our Civil Rights, and Biden’s Legacy, are On the Line
When President Lyndon B. Johnson took office in 1963, his advisers urged him to abandon President John F. Kennedy's…
Republican lawmakers push to forged vaccine refusal as a civil rights challenge |…
State Republican lawmakers in the United States are pushing laws banning vaccine mandates to give denials of a…
Ex-LAPD chief and civil rights lawyer
One of us is a former white head of the Los Angeles Police Department, and the other is a black civil rights…
Hiawatha golf clubhouse might quickly be named after civil rights pioneer
According to two of Hughes' children, Shirley Hughes and Solomon Hughes, Jr., their father urged…
Researchers push for historic standing to commemorate civil rights efforts on San…
SAN ANTONIO - Research at the University of Texas at San Antonio is pushing for…
Freedom Rider Theresa Ann Walker, spouse of Wyatt Tee Walker, arrested,…
In 1960, the Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in bus stations, train stations and airports was illegal…