The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is a sub-agency of the U.S. Department of Education that is primarily focused on enforcing civil rights laws prohibiting...
27 KB (2,776 words) - 22:54, 12 October 2024
William P. Rogers, after the Civil Rights Act of 1957 created the head office of Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights (AAG-CR; appointed by the president...
16 KB (614 words) - 18:58, 7 November 2024
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...
120 KB (10,816 words) - 18:04, 24 September 2024
men voted and held political office, but as time went on Blacks in the South were increasingly deprived of civil rights, often under racist Jim Crow laws...
293 KB (33,751 words) - 00:55, 18 November 2024
charged with the responsibility for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning civil rights issues in the United States. Specifically...
26 KB (3,142 words) - 15:32, 20 July 2024
Civil rights movements are a worldwide series of political movements for equality before the law, that peaked in the 1960s.[citation needed] In many situations...
43 KB (5,581 words) - 22:07, 29 May 2024
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...
37 KB (4,085 words) - 08:05, 31 October 2024
Kenneth L. Marcus (section Office for Civil Rights)
and leader of the Brandeis Center. He was the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Education from August 6, 2018 through...
34 KB (3,597 words) - 18:18, 29 September 2024
Secretary for Strategic Operations and Outreach in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education, and the Office's Acting Assistant...
12 KB (1,117 words) - 07:51, 8 November 2024
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a department of the United Nations Secretariat that works to promote and...
26 KB (2,722 words) - 14:07, 8 June 2024
OCR (section Offices of civil rights)
engineering Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education State Office of Civil Rights, United States Department of State GSA Office of Civil Rights, General...
2 KB (257 words) - 23:57, 26 October 2024
Secretary for Civil Rights Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration Office of Tribal Relations (OTR) Departmental Administration (DA) Office of Customer...
91 KB (7,985 words) - 23:53, 14 November 2024
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (section Title V: Revenue offset governing tax deductions for employers)
Libraries Full text of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (PDF/TXT) U.S. Government Printing Office Office for Civil Rights page on HIPAA...
68 KB (7,573 words) - 14:35, 19 September 2024
The Civil Rights Act of 1875, sometimes called the Enforcement Act or the Force Act, was a United States federal law enacted during the Reconstruction...
22 KB (2,136 words) - 07:42, 20 October 2024
United States Department of Homeland Security (redirect from United States Office of Homeland Security)
sector infrastructure Office of the Secretary includes the Privacy Office, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Office of Inspector General, Citizenship...
77 KB (7,444 words) - 08:55, 16 November 2024
August 4, 2013. "Office of the Secretary | Homeland Security". www.dhs.gov. Retrieved October 12, 2023. "Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties | Homeland...
44 KB (1,737 words) - 13:34, 23 October 2024
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...
83 KB (9,456 words) - 07:51, 10 October 2024
People on Civil Rights was a speech on civil rights, delivered on radio and television by United States President John F. Kennedy from the Oval Office on June...
54 KB (6,904 words) - 16:32, 30 September 2024
Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Act of 1866 The Civil Rights Act of 1866 (14 Stat. 27–30, enacted April 9, 1866, reenacted...
27 KB (2,715 words) - 15:44, 11 November 2024
Title IX (category United States federal civil rights legislation)
Title IX is a landmark federal civil rights law in the United States that was enacted as part (Title IX) of the Education Amendments of 1972. It prohibits...
93 KB (9,380 words) - 08:39, 15 November 2024
Roger Severino (category American civil rights lawyers)
1974/1975) is an American attorney who served as the director of the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) at the United States Department of Health and Human Services...
11 KB (878 words) - 12:25, 15 June 2024
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) is a multilateral treaty that commits nations to respect the civil and political rights of individuals...
72 KB (5,923 words) - 11:44, 10 August 2024
This is a timeline of the civil rights movement in the United States, a nonviolent mid-20th century freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement...
65 KB (7,647 words) - 00:35, 25 September 2024
Civil rights in the United States include noted legislation and organized efforts to abolish public and private acts of racial discrimination against Native...
152 KB (17,794 words) - 21:19, 31 August 2024
Wikisource has original text related to this article: Civil Rights Cases The Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3 (1883), were a group of five landmark cases...
36 KB (5,342 words) - 14:11, 18 August 2024
Enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964" (PDF). United States Department of Education - Office for Civil Rights. January 19, 2021. "Findings...
8 KB (857 words) - 16:41, 21 June 2024
The civil rights movement (1865–1896) aimed to eliminate racial discrimination against African Americans, improve their educational and employment opportunities...
93 KB (11,674 words) - 22:05, 26 August 2024
United States Environmental Protection Agency (redirect from Office of Civil Rights for the Environmental Protection Agency)
Advisory Committee Office of Civil Rights Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations Office of Continuous Improvement Office of the Executive...
152 KB (14,663 words) - 19:59, 10 November 2024
(SMART) Office of Administration (OA) Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO) Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) Office for Civil Rights (OCR)...
5 KB (368 words) - 15:39, 2 September 2024
List of positions filled by presidential appointment with Senate confirmation (section Office of the Secretary of Defense)
Secretary for Civil Rights – runs the Office for Civil Rights Assistant Secretary for Communications and Outreach – runs the Office of Communications and...
65 KB (6,248 words) - 03:19, 29 October 2024