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The Civil Rights Act of 1964, its passage, and conservative commentary about it.
Yes — President Donald Trump told The New York Times that civil-rights-era protections and policies have left white people “very badly treated,” explicitly framing the 1960s reforms as producing “reve...
The legal and social gains won by the mid-20th century civil rights movement are real and durable—landmark laws and court decisions reshaped public life—but many of those gains are contested in practi...
Academic work since the Civil Rights Act of 1964 shows that “reverse discrimination” is as much a political and legal construct as an empirical finding: scholarship traces its rhetorical origins to op...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 aimed to dismantle legal segregation and outlaw discrimination across American public life, targeting public accommodations, federally funded programs, schools, voting pro...
Conservative commentary about the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has never been monolithic: contemporaneous conservative opposition often framed the law as federal overreach into private life, while other c...
Southern Democrats were the principal congressional bloc resisting major civil‑rights legislation in the 1960s: they largely opposed early federal measures in 1957–60, mounted a prolonged Senate filib...
The civil rights movement of the 1950s–60s delivered landmark legal victories—most notably the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965—that dismantled statutory segregation and outl...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was sponsored and driven through Congress primarily by Democratic leaders—most notably House Democrat Emanuel Celler in the House and Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield...