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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

The new president just unwound a landmark anti-discrimination measure implemented amid the height of the Civil Rights ...

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood in 1964, led on to fame for Lyndon Baines ... But it was civil rights, and not the rail dispute, that proved Johnson’s most ...

President Kennedy was an open supporter of civil rights. Examples of Kennedy’s actions are: Lyndon B Johnson had been Kennedy’s vice president. When he took up the role of president ...

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

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

U.S. President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order this week that dismantles decades of federal diversity, equity, ...