While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Medgar Evers, a World War II veteran who fought segregation in Mississippi, is among service members whose histories have ...

The purge came after an executive order by President Trump to eliminate all Diversity, Equality and Inclusion programs.

Rosa Parks would refuse to move to the back of the bus; the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. would advocate nonviolence as he became the face and voice of the civil rights movement. Spell Freedom ...

Before Civil Rights activist Dave Dennis participated and then helped plan Mississippi’s famous Summer of Freedom in 1964, the Shreveport native learned from local elders that spurred the movement ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

This month, our nation remembers the heroes of Selma, Alabama.  Sixty years ago, they marched for voting rights, survived brutal beatings, and inspired the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Discover the courageous role of Black educators in the Civil Rights Movement and their impact on Selma. Explore the legacy of my family's history.

It's been 60 years since the historic Civil Rights March in Selma, Alabama. Protesters demanded equal voting rights for African Americans. State troopers met those calls with shocking violence. That ...

They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...

Human rights activists are being arrested at random and the smallest protests are being brutally suppressed, even if they were organized by Iranian war heroes.