S. Commission on Civil Rights (CCR) is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act...

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was the first federal civil rights legislation passed by the United States Congress since the Civil Rights Act of 1875. The...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pub. L. 88–352, 78 Stat. 241, enacted July 2, 1964) is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws...

Civil rights in the United States include noted legislation and organized efforts to abolish public and private acts of racial discrimination against...

The civil rights movement was a social movement and campaign in the United States from 1954 to 1968 which aimed to abolish legalized racial segregation...

A human rights commission, also known as a human relations commission, is a body set up to investigate, promote or protect human rights. The term may...

political rights Civil liberties in the United Kingdom Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Convention on the Political...

The Civil Rights Act of 1968 (Pub. L. 90–284, 82 Stat. 73, enacted April 11, 1968) is a landmark law in the United States signed into law by United States...

"Roberts Commission" (1941) President's Committee on Civil Rights (1946) President's Scientific Research Board (1946) Presidential Commission on Higher...

The President's Committee on Civil Rights was a United States presidential commission established by President Harry Truman in 1946. The committee was...

appeared in a number of law journals, and the United States Commission on Civil Rights published a report on domestic abuse titled "Under the Rule of Thumb"...

serving as one of the five Commissioners on the United States Commission on Civil Rights. She is a civil rights attorney who practices family law, criminal...

ecumenical organization in the United States. From 1974 to 1981, he was the chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Flemming was born in Kingston...

feminist activist. She also served as a commissioner for the United States Commission on Civil Rights in the early 1980s. Currently, she is a director for the...

Civil Rights Act may refer to several acts of the United States Congress, including: Civil Rights Act of 1866, extending the rights of emancipated slaves...

Government Reorganization Act of 2005. Briefing Report" (PDF). U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. January 20, 2006. Library, University of Hawaii at Manoa Hamilton...

This is a timeline of voting rights in the United States, documenting when various groups in the country gained the right to vote or were disenfranchised...

politically conservative African American chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, a position that he held from 1981 until his death during...

The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people in the United States are among the most advanced in the world, with public...

the United States Commission on Civil Rights 1990 – President George H. W. Bush appoints George W. Haley chairman of the Postal Rate Commission 1990...

discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution...

In the United States, human rights consists of a series of rights which are legally protected by the Constitution of the United States (particularly by...

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights of individuals...

case to the Commission for Human Rights in Strasbourg and to the United Nations. Having started with basic domestic issues, the civil rights struggle in...

within the United States Commission on Civil Rights’ (USCCR) Office of the Staff Director and The CSSBMB will investigate potential civil rights violations...

Voting rights, specifically enfranchisement and disenfranchisement of different groups, have been a moral and political issue throughout United States history...

Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 584 U.S. 617 (2018), was a case in the Supreme Court of the United States that addressed whether owners...

the United States Civil Rights Commission. He was previously nominated to serve as the United States Assistant Attorney General for the United States Department...

The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability...

appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, a federal agency focused on investigating and reporting on civil rights issues. The same year...