With election season upon us, it's important to remember the past. Two rural communities in West Tennessee drew national ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her ...

The tour company Road Scholar launched two new U.S. Civil Rights Movement trips for 2027, timed to the 10th anniversary of its original program.