Originally enacted as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1866,, Section 1983 is typically associated with suits claiming local state officials such as police officers have violated a person's Fourth ...

Many conservative groups have cited that law, Section 1981 of the Civil Rights Act of 1866, in challenging diversity initiatives in the workplace, which Trump also opposes. The case is Rajaram et ...

Carr, "a maid for a private family," as receiving $450 for a one-acre plot. The Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Fourteenth Amendment guaranteed that African Americans could own land ...

File – Attorney Alphonso David speaks during a news conference Aug. 10, 2023, in New York. David, legal counsel for the Fearless Fund, said that there’s a “coordinated use of Section 1981 ...

The new legislation would require American citizens to produce documents like a passport or birth certificate to register to ...

Iowa Republicans are seeking to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state's civil rights act, ending 18 years of protection from discrimination for transgender Iowans. House ...

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, ...

The act prohibits the sale of all federally owned landmarks listed on the national register of historic places.

The San Francisco Office for Civil Rights is closing down as part of the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Department of Education. It is uncertain what will come of the backlog of the ...

A subcommittee hearing Monday morning on a bill that would remove gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act drew heavy protests. The hearing had to be paused at one point due to loud chants ...

Lenora Robinson, 77, of Aberdeen, who has known Copeland for nearly six decades, said it is important now more than ever for ...