In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During this era, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, Black folks worked ...

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of political action. It was a movement led by people from all over the country, all fighting racism in local ways ...

His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...

In the late '50s, civil rights leader the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth felt the Birmingham campaign needed a boost. So, he added music to the movement. The choir he created then still lifts their ...

Tuesday's protest comes after Gov. Kim Reynolds signed Senate File 418, removing gender identity as a protected class from ...

When the Supreme Court announced the landmark ruling of Brown v. Topeka Board of Education in 1954, putting an end to state-sanctioned segregation of public schools, Septima Clark, the widowed ...

March 17 marks 106 years since the birth of musician Nat King Cole, whose success paved the way for future generations of Black artists.

outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. colleges The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is best known for enforcing disability rights across America’s ...