The spirit of the Confederacy is alive and well in Trump’s America | Lloyd Green

Federal contractors will no longer be barred from racially segregating restaurants, waiting rooms and water fountains.

Memo dated 15 February 2025 , issued by the General Services Administration , the procurement arm of the federal government, explicitly dropped those strictures.

Discomfort with civil rights laws has been stirring within the Republican party for more than a decade .

Republicans gave LBJ the votes he needed to overcome Dixiecrat opposition.

Republican senator Everett McKinley Dirksen backed Johnson ’s efforts in the Senate to break the southern-led filibuster.

In 1973 , the Nixon justice department sued Trump , his father and their company for illegal housing discrimination.