Robert Moses began his career as a civil service reformer in the 1910s before accumulating power through public authorities

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Joseph P. Kennedy Sr. recruited a candidate who shared the exact name of his son John F. Kennedy's opponent during John F. Kennedy's early congressional primary campaign

Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1999

Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1988

Since the American Civil War, the United States president's political party has lost congressional seats in all midterm elections except four

Egyptian diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005

John H. Sununu served as White House Chief of Staff under United States President George H.W. Bush

Italian Transport Minister Matteo Salvini serves as the leader of the right-wing Lega party

Italian Transport Minister Matteo Salvini invoked the legal mechanism known as precettazione to declare public transport strikes unlawful around holidays

The founding philosophy of the United States was rooted in the premise that human life is perfectible on Earth

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young was forced to resign in 1979 after holding an unauthorized meeting with the Palestine Liberation Organization

Biographer Robert Caro interviewed former Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge regarding Lyndon B. Johnson's early civil rights views

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 retained jury trial guarantees for Southern election officials, avoiding a Southern Democratic filibuster

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 retained jury trial protections for Southern election officials, preventing a Southern filibuster

Lyndon B. Johnson added a provision to the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ensuring Black citizens the right to serve on federal juries

During the 1950s, Southern states required jurors to be registered voters, which resulted in all-white juries in civil rights prosecutions

Former Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge told Robert Caro that freshman Senator Lyndon B. Johnson expressed no sympathy for Black Americans

The Civil Rights Act of 1957 included a provision establishing the right of African American citizens to serve on federal juries

Southern senators demanded that civil rights legislation require criminal contempt cases against election registrars to be tried by juries

Negotiations over the Civil Rights Act of 1957 deadlocked over whether Southern voting officials accused of voter suppression would receive jury trials

Texas blue laws prohibiting the Sunday sale of 42 specific consumer goods, including electronics, clothing, and kitchen utensils, were repealed in 1985