The Civil Rights Division Is Enforcing Civil Rights Again — But the Work Isn’t Over
In May 1957, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and delivered his “Give Us the Ballot” address — positioning voting rights at the center of the larger struggle for civil rights. In the months that followed, Congress responded. Sixty-five years ago this month, President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act […]