With a stroke of a pen, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Tuesday that overturned government policies going back six decades that banned discrimination and required ...

Rossein said some people might have confused Johnson’s 1965 order with the 1964 Civil Rights Act he signed into law that went into effect July 5, 1965. That law created the Equal Employment ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) was adopted in 1979 by the United Nations General Assembly.

When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965, he had already signed the Civil Rights act into law, and he said he expected to sign ...

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 1965 (UPI) - Lyndon Baines Johnson was inaugurated as President in his own right today and launched his term with a plea for Americans to unite to achieve "progress without ...

As part of his directives targeting diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI), President Donald Trump revoked a landmark executive order signed by Lyndon B. Johnson to prevent ...

Trump signed an Executive Order, titled “Ending Radical And Wasteful Government DEI Programs And Preferencing." ...

Dedicated to the 36th president of the United States, the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library houses all the expected artifacts – such as presidential papers – as well as several quirkier ...

Why President Johnson Signed the Executive Order in 1965 That Trump Rescinded WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson took the stage at Howard University in June of 1965 ...