COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - There was a milestone moment in Columbia on Friday afternoon as a Richland County judge signed an order exonerating - and erasing - the criminal records of seven men who staged ...

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself ...

The civil rights movement that gained strength in the 1960s was marked by citizen activism – as well as police violence ...

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The Civil Rights Act was an extraordinary accomplishment, outlawing discrimination on the basis of race, sex, religion, and national origin and securing all Americans’ participation in our society.

Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk once said, "We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." Journalist William Turton first reported on Kirk's comments in a ...

Civil rights advocacy groups on Friday asked a federal judge to block the U.S. Justice Department from shuttering a 1960s-era ...

It's been 60 years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Across the country, civil rights groups, scholars and others have commemorated the landmark law with panels, comprehensive ...