The Greensboro Four: How They Ignited the Civil Rights Movement

The Greensboro Four: How They Ignited the Civil Rights Movement

In 1960, four Black students sat at a “whites only” lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The protest and others like it led to broad desegregation.

Trump Admin Attempts to Rush Changes to Civil Rights Regs

But instead of the Education Department taking the lead, the Energy Department proposed a regulation targeting transgender student athletes and other changes to equal rights in education. The Trump administration is attempting to use a process known as direct final rulemaking to surreptitiously strike long-standing civil rights protections under Title IX, Title VI and Section 504 without going through the notice-and-comment period typically requ…