That law, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, could easily be made into a much more powerful tool against structural racism. The key first section of the law (known today as Section 1981) was a ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1866 has become a critical tool in conservatives’ fight to end racial considerations in the private sector.

Opponents of workplace diversity programs are increasingly banking on a section of the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to challenge equity policies as well as funding to minority-owned businesses.

Check out five things that the average person should know about The Civil Rights Act of 1866, which has been protecting Americans for the last 153 years.

On July 2, 1964, the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law with the signature of President Lyndon B. Johnson.

In 1964, almost 100 years after the Civil Rights Act of 1866 was passed, Congress passed Public Law 88-352 (78 Stat. 241), with President Lyndon Baines Johnson signing it into law.

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

Those lawsuits accuse all three of violating Section 1981 of the 1866 Civil Rights Act, a law enacted after the Civil War that guarantees all people the same right to make and enforce contracts ...

Is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 a good law or a bad one? There are people of all political stripes on both sides of that debate. Many of the act’s supporters consider it to be “the final ...

The American Alliance for Equal Rights, which challenges race-based policies, is suing two law firms for their diversity fellowships after the outlaw of affirmative action by the Supreme Court.

Charlotte civil rights attorney James Ferguson talks to WFAE's Gwendolyn Glenn about the significance of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and where it stands today.