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The Voting Rights Act of 1965, which suspended literacy tests and enabled federal oversight in jurisdictions with histories of disenfranchisement.
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...
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964, amid a bruising congressional fight and national debate, yet its passage did not prevent Lyndon B. Johnson from winning the presidenti...
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...
Most reporting assembled here portrays Martin Luther King Jr. as a quintessential transformational leader defined by vision, moral authority, charisma, resilience and nonviolent disruption . What is l...