A new documentary chronicles the youth who took part in Tuscaloosa’s civil rights movement and their role in desegregating ...

SPRINGFIELD — A chance discovery in Springfield College’s archives led a local professor on a yearslong quest to write about a lesser-known chapter in the nation’s Civil Rights Movement. There, Martin ...

Initially scornful of King and his strategies, Malcolm later began to recognize the worth of — and even began tentative ...

Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist ...

He was jailed while marching with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. before becoming Detroit's first Black surgical resident physician.

For many, the story of the Civil Rights Movement begins somewhere in the 1950s, when cases like Brown v. Board of Education reached the Supreme Court docket and forever changed the landscape for ...

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Jocelyn Benson has been Michigan’s Secretary of State since the start of 2019. But before that, she was, as she describes, “a student of the Civil Rights movement,” moving to Montgomery, Alabama ...

In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka journeys through the Civil Rights Movement and the longer Black freedom struggle that made it possible.

Civil Rights photographer Cecil Williams says South Carolina has made progress, but new debates over race and representation ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Voting rights, the work of the Civil Rights Movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall Friday, with protesters gathering ahead of midterm elections and ...