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 ...

When discussing the civil rights movement, many focus on its political and social implications. But we rarely hear about the economic ideals that drove the movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I ...

Clarence B. Jones, a renowned civil rights attorney, strategist, and longtime confidant of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has ...

The Trump administration argued that Harvard unlawfully discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students, in violation of ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

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The city of Greensboro is continuing its efforts to preserve and highlight local civil rights history through the $75K ...

A group of African American anti-segregation demonstrators run for safety as they are sprayed with high-pressure water from fire hoses during a civil rights march in Birmingham, Alabama. The Civil ...

After the All Roads Lead to the South National Day of Action, civil rights leaders have announced massive plans for an even ...

Miss Cora Tyson, sometimes called the 'Housemother of the Civil Rights Movement," was honored with a procession in Saint ...

America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968. Many Americans ...

Former Massachusetts State Representative and civil rights activist Benjamin Swan has passed away on Monday at the age of 92.