The Civil Rights Act of 1964." National Archives. "Voting Rights Act (1965)." U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. "History of Fair Housing." Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of ...

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

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Civil Rights history as living memory ... This is one country, and we don't act like one country," Alston said. She added "these are some of the small things that can be done now to keep an ...