Eric Foner: The Civil Rights Act of 1875 is the last major piece of Reconstruction legislation. It outlaws racial discrimination in public accommodations -- hotels, transportation, opera houses ...

After the Civil War, Black voters faced danger and violence—and they fought for political power against all odds.

Many Northerners, disgusted by Klan violence, lent their support to the Fifteenth Amendment, which gave the vote to black men in every state, and the First Reconstruction Act of 1867, which placed ...

Democratic Representative Maxine Waters of California introduced H.R. 10058, the Medicaid Breast Cancer Access to Treatment Act.

Oncoplastic reconstruction is when the breast surgeon ... before and after surgery The Women’s Health and Cancer Rights Act and the Affordable Care Act require most insurers to cover breast ...