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Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987: Required public accommodations to comply with federal civil rights law in all aspects of its operations to receive federal funding, including in schools. Pub. L. 100–259: 1988 Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 Pub. L. 100–297: 1988
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. [7] It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and public accommodations, and employment discrimination. The act ...
Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South.They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 February 2025. Landmark U.S. civil rights and labor law This article is about the 1964 Civil Rights Act. For other American laws called the Civil Rights Acts, see Civil Rights Act. Civil Rights Act of 1964 Long title An Act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the ...
The motion would undo the school board's decision in 2020 stripping a high school and elementary school of the names of three military leaders of the pro-slavery Southern states in the U.S. Civil ...
All were abruptly closed after passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Turner College: Shelbyville: Tennessee: 1888 c1929 Private Established by the AME Church, Turner was named for a Bishop of the church. Along with a normal school, it included a high school, an "industrial institute," and a Bible study institute included in the institution. [28 ...
The U.S. Department of Education is seeking to negotiate with the Carroll Independent School District in Southlake, Texas, over four students’ civil rights complaints — which three education ...
Putting the names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson back on Virginia schools is reminder of how politically powerful those Confederate figures are (and have been for generations) in that ...