The Southern Courier dared to report on civil rights news in ways other publications would not. The Southern Courier, a Montgomery newspaper launched during the Civil Rights Movement, will receive a ...

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of ...

Fifty years ago, on March 7, 1965, 600 marchers protesting for voting equality left the Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma headed for the state capitol in Montgomery. Before they had even left town, ...

Eight years after Parks’ death, on February 27, 2013, a statue of Parks was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A Montgomery-based Civil Rights Era newspaper has received a historical marker honoring its coverage of historical events. Ellen Lake wrote for Harvard University’s newspaper ...

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the ...

After months of construction, The Equal Justice Initiative's Elevation Convening Center and Hotel has embarked on its first phase of opening.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — At a polling place not far from the intersection of avenues named for Jefferson Davis and Rosa Parks, Laura Minor spent a scorching afternoon on a folding chair with a David Woods ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Facing a sea of state troopers, Charles Mauldin was near the front line of voting rights marchers who strode across the now-infamous Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, on ...