Segregationist faction opposing civil rights.

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is a bipartisan, independent commission of the United States federal government, created by the Civil Rights Act of 1957 during the Eisenhower administration, that is charged with the responsibility for investigating, reporting on, and making recommendations concerning civil rights issues in the United States.

The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

(September 3, 1831 – November 30, 1864) a lawyer and militia general in South Carolina, and later a Confederate Army brigadier general during the American Civil War.

The Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice enforces federal statutes prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin.