The phrase "affirmative action" and much of the executive order Trump is repealing, itself built on one signed by Johnson's ...

Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...

With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government ...

President Donald Trump signed nearly three dozen executive orders during his first week in office. One order he signed on ...

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

Explore the pivotal role of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in shaping the Civil Rights Movement and the passage of landmark ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on; President's Room, U.S. Capitol, Washington, DC. LBJ Library, photo by ...

For many Americans, the presidency of Lyndon Johnson is a distant memory marked ... President Johnson was essential to the passage of the Civil Rights Act, Medicare, the Voting Rights Act and ...

Lyndon B. Johnson’s Executive Order 11246, promoting affirmative action in federal contracting, was among the number of DEI ...

Trump revoked a decades-old executive order saying federal contractors must take affirmative action to avoid discrimination ...

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

The Supreme Court has already affirmed the original meaning of the 14th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Now the ...