Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice ...

The 1954 Brown v Topeka case was an important turning point in the civil rights movement, as it showed that the Supreme Court was prepared to take action to end segregation in the USA. In 1865 ...

The 1960 Presidential Election The presidential election of 1960 was one of the closest in history ... invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech ...

What the history of the civil rights movement actually shows is that when change happens, it is often because people were courageous for decades and sometimes generations in the wilderness.

On the evening of March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old mother of five children, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan ...

Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...

Discover the deep history and connection between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Penn Center, a former school for ...

President Trump targets museums he said push divisive ideology. Activists and historians say he's trying to erase the ...

Instead, the latest work from Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins trains its lens on a family with deep roots in the American civil rights movement grappling with the impact of that very ...

"Memphis carries a special place in American history," Memphis Mayor Paul Young said ... embodied those two elements during ...