According to one of his biographers, Bob Dylan could have been sued for his iconic protest song, "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll".

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the ...

Twenty-one years ago, Tyson’s Foods and Perdue Farms closed several plants. New Yorkers formed human chains and forced small stores to close their businesses. Hundreds of thousands took over the ...

The Metropolitan Police’s recent decision to ban a United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) protest in Tower Hamlets offers a striking illustration of how the United Kingdom and United States take ...

City Council expected to sign off on a pact over allegations police, officials violated the constitutional rights of ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The site of a crucial moment in Kalamazoo’s Civil Rights Movement history will make way for a new senior center this fall. In the 1960s, Van Avery Drug Store sat near the ...

This was one of the civil rights movement's most popular songs, an unofficial anthem so pervasive that President Lyndon B. Johnson slipped the title phrase into a speech to Congress in March of 1965 ...

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Voting Rights and Protest; 1. Black Voters and the Federal Voting Rights Enforcement Effort ...

Thousands of people protested in downtown Houston on Saturday afternoon as part of the nationwide “No Kings” protests taking place across the United States. Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily ...

Protesters hold signs during a “No Kings” demonstration in downtown Houston on Saturday, June 14, 2025. "Workers over Billionaires" protests are scheduled to take place in the Houston area on Monday, ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...