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#civil rights act of 1964
  • Moyers on Democracy
    Watch Bill Moyers and Christiane Amanpour: 'Truth is the Oxygen of Democracy'
    June 10, 2020

    "Democracy was dying of too many lies long before this murder," Moyers tells Amanpour. "Unless we see the truth and act on it, we are going to run out of oxygen."

  • Justice
    Trump Tears Down LBJ's Great Society Piece by Piece
    August 16, 2017
    | Christina Greer
    How the Trump election commission could corrode our civil rights from within.
  • Justice
    Remembering Jimmie Lee Jackson, the First Martyr of the Selma Struggle
    February 20, 2015
    | Ari Berman
    On the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday," activists gathered in Marion, Alabama, to honor and commemorate those who died fighting for equality and justice.
  • History
    50 Years Later: Why We Must Remember Freedom Summer
    July 10, 2014
    | Peter Edelman
    We must remember the courage of the people of Mississippi and other Jim Crow states and that the civil rights movement was an endeavor of white and black bonding.
  • When the Republicans Really Were the Party of Lincoln
    July 2, 2014
    | John Nichols
    Before embracing divisive politics, the Republicans had been closely aligned with the cause of civil rights and had been supporters of equal justice.
  • Bill Moyers Essay: The Civil Rights Act of 1964
    January 18, 2008 | Bill Moyers Journal
    As an aide to Lyndon Johnson, Bill was a witness to the cooperation between Martin Luther King, Jr., and the president that lead to the Act's passage.


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