Sentences with phrase «civil rights legislation»

The bill — «one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in 90 years» - was signed into law...

The bill — «one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in 90 years» — was signed into law...

The article raises the question about whether companies are doing this because of the perception of inevitable civil rights legislation, or because the employees and the culture at large is dictating the change.

The granddaddy of civil rights legislation is the 1964 Civil Right Act.

The conservatives (denialists) in a society see themselves as being near the top of the heap, mechanisms that bring about major social changes are likely to be bad for their position, in comparison the liberals (alarmists) see such mechanisms as an opportunity to bring about social change to their advantage, examples of how conservatives fight against such changes can be seen all over the place, from giving women the vote, to civil rights legislation, to gay marriage, etc..

Nor would they have fought to pass civil rights legislation while progressives fought to prevent them.

The Republican Party under Eisenhower first proposed civil rights legislation to congress.

Although the federal labor policy contained in Taft - Hartley is not to be ignored, the paramount concern must be with the public policy against racial discrimination which is reflected in civil rights legislation and in the Court's New Negro Alliance decision, which immunized racial - labor disputes from injunctions under NorrisLa Guardia long before the advent of civil rights legislation»...

She recalls childhood events (picture the Rice family donning Mickey Mouse ears to watch her favorite show) with poignancy and has a firm grasp on significant civil rights legislation and advances.

In a breathtaking tour de force, Caro details Johnson's amazing triumph in maneuvering to passage the first civil rights legislation since 1875.

In orchestrating the passage through the Senate of the first civil rights legislation in 82 years, Lyndon Johnson demonstrated his mastery of persuasion and his obsessive pursuit of power.

Though President John F. Kennedy introduced civil rights legislation shortly before his death, it was his successor, Johnson, who was able to get the legislation passed and move on to other aspects of what became known as the Great Society.

She coordinated and implemented strategy on federal civil rights legislation, supervised responses to federal agency actions involving civil rights, and helped to develop proposals to strengthen federal civil rights regulations, guidance, and data collection.

This year marked the fiftieth anniversary of Mississippi Freedom Summer and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation in US history.

That the organization that pioneered, struggled for, and achieved so much from Brown v. Board of Education through the 1960s civil rights legislation should speak out in this way commands our attention and engagement.

President Kennedy, we all know, submitted major civil rights legislation to Congress guaranteeing equal access to education and protecting the right to vote for all.

Protect civil rights as the foundation of a viable healthy democracy, framed in the Declaration of Independence, guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution and codified by civil rights legislation.

Difference is, the Sheff efforts are rooted in Brown vs. Board of Education and other Civil Rights legislation, whereas the Common Core and other «reformy» actions are untried ploys that ultimately will increase the racial and economic segregation of our Two Connecticuts and further widen the achievement gap for our students.

Johnson's own laudable efforts to pass civil rights legislation, as much driven by his own morality as by political calculations about winning higher office, waned after he felt that Martin Luther King and others didn't cater enough to his prodigious - yet - fragile ego.

First passed in 1965, ESEA is well - recognized as one of the most important and lasting pieces of civil rights legislation.

This includes the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (also known as No Child Left Behind), the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and all applicable civil rights legislation.

The report, assembled under the direction of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, made the case that civil rights legislation needed to be only the first step toward emancipation of black Americans from the legacies of the past.

Governing education, aside from enforcing civil rights legislation and regulating schooling on federal lands, is not among them.

He stepped awkwardly into JFK's shoes, oversaw Civil Rights legislation and declared a war on poverty, but is chiefly remembered for digging the nation ever deeper into the quagmire of Vietnam.

Their looks are just a starting point for this sensational recap of a small chunk of American history, Johnson's difficult first year in office, detailing an outsize personality and the civil rights legislation he forced through Congress.

Frank Langella («The Americans») is strong as always as LBJ mentor Sen. Richard Russell, a good ol' boy who parted ways with the President on the key issue of the day and warned of the Democratic Party losing the South for generations if civil rights legislation passed.

It's a great thing to see a movie that both recognizes the importance of Lyndon Johnson's civil rights legislation and gives credit to the African - Americans on the ground who pushed the freedom agenda forward.

Yet there is an immediate relevance to all of her films, explicitly so with 2006's Old Joy, which interrupts its early moments of awkward silence with Air America broadcasts in which callers animatedly discuss first the legacy of the Johnson administration's push for civil rights legislation, then the current political divide of the Bush era.

That's how the game is played, and indeed we may be reminded of the arm - bending used to pass the civil rights legislation by Lyndon B. Johnson, the subject of another biography by Goodwin.

A scheduled vote has been put off until after another committee meeting, to discuss the latest iteration of the civil rights legislation.

At 1:30 p.m., Empire State Agenda will be joined in Albany by Assembly members, state senators, and LGBTQ advocates to «demand the State Senate take up the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA), civil rights legislation that would extend New York's anti-discrimination laws to safeguard trans individuals, who currently stand outside our state's legal protections against unfair practices.»

Prior to 1988, the last time the procedure had been used was during a 1942 filibuster over civil rights legislation.

He campaigned against civil rights legislation pending before Congress, stating that he believed it gave too much power to the federal government.

And yet he pushed through great advances such as civil rights legislation by sheer force of personality even when Democrats disagreed with him.

Public sector jobs, with the pensions they provide, have been one of the most important ways for black families to enter the middle class since the 1960s, when civil rights legislation and the...

Similarly, do you have evidence evidence that Democratic passage of civil rights legislation is what caused African Americans to switch parties?

If we look at the polarization trend in the Senate, where the strength of the southern Democratic caucus blocked civil rights legislation for years, the trend is remarkable.

From the 1940s onwards, liberal Democrats began pushing for desegregation and civil rights legislation for racial minorities.

The dialogue that ensued engaged the authors with a series of questions surrounding the book's central thesis: despite the real progress in racial equality achieved by the 1960s civil rights legislation, the United States political institution has been caught in between two modes of conceptualizing, and enacting policy, about race — both of which have failed to close the tremendous gap in racial disparities in social and economic welfare that are a legacy of American history.

After a series of filibusters in the 1960s over civil rights legislation, the Senate put a «two - track system» into place in the early 1970s under the leadership of Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Majority Whip Robert Byrd.

Coming from a family that had fought on the Confederate side in the Civil War, and in his early career a bastion of the Old South which resisted every move towards civil rights for black Americans, it fell to him, as president, to put forward the most significant piece of civil rights legislation in the nation's history.

I said he — by force of will — got two of the greatest pieces of civil rights legislation ever passed in this nation's history.

In 1965, the year Congress passed the historic civil rights legislation, black representation in these elite institutions was ZERO.

So a blow was struck that had much the same effect as the Civil Rights legislation, but in the area of information access that the Civil Rights Act did not cover.

The irony, of course, is that while Helms» counterattack on the civil rights legislation left Democrats aghast, they saw nothing unseemly in their own efforts to paint him as Grand Kleagle of the US.

The south will vote GOP again as they have since LBJ supported and signed Civil Rights Legislation.

Republicans voted against Civil Rights Legislation and have capitalized on their NO vote since the 1960's.

They have never opposed civil rights legislation.

But if anything, her comments anticipate not the distant future but the shape of the Nixon administration and the national backlash against civil rights legislation and the sexual revolution — events close at hand in 1970.

Not exact matches

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.