Civil rights “power couple” and graduates ... and Stephens Kruize founded the Tallahassee chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality. The duo led a series of sit-in protests at segregated ...

But the demands of the civil rights movement went far beyond ... Leadership Conference (SCLC), the NAACP, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Urban League, and the Student Nonviolent ...

American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin (1912 ... He was also a major force in the Congress of Racial Equality and contributed to the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

WASHINGTON — Congressional leaders marked the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act on Tuesday ... Dirksen's famous floor speech calling racial equality "an idea whose time has come." ...

On the left, as always, the failure to achieve equal outcomes along racial lines requires ... from the standard of colorblind equality. Congress should strengthen this principle by amending the ...

The Freedom Rides represented a major evolution in the tactics and strategy of the Civil Rights Movement. Movement leaders at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Southern Christian ...

The acting chief of the country’s top agency for enforcing worker rights will face questions at a Senate committee hearing ...

That’s why we’re calling on Congress ... for the Equality Act topped 75 percent, including a majority of Republicans and Independents. The Equality Act has also garnered support from businesses and ...