"I have a dream that one day my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." That is one of my favorite...
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What are civil rights"
The terminology given to the word civil rights means that people are been treated unequally in a country, shops, place and ect. The meaning civil (internal) rights is a righ...
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Try to imagine being a descendant of thousands of years of royality and finding yourself reduced to the bondage of slavery. Can you see how our ancestors were abused, starved, killed, and even spi...
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton pledges to expand federal hate crime laws and use an independent board to review Justice Department attorney hiring.That's according to a sl...
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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, unveiling her agenda to promote civil rights, told an NAACP banquet Saturday that the "scales of justice are seriously out of balance" for ...
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Congress moved on Tuesday toward setting aside $100 million to create a Justice Department unit devoted to investigating unsolved murders from the civil rights era.A bill named in honor of slain bl...
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A 73-year-old retired state trooper was indicted Wednesday in the 1965 shooting death of a black man _ a killing that set in motion the historic civil rights protests in Selma and led to passage of...
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Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney on Thursday called the failure of inner city schools "the great civil rights issue of our time."Taking questions at a music hall, Romney was asked whethe...
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Major League Baseball began an effort to emphasize its place in the history of America's struggle for racial equality just one day after a study said only 8.4 percent of its players last season wer...
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Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, has died at age 100, a family friend said.Hill died peacefully Sunday at his home du...
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