Take in some of the sites and landmarks across the American South that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and the ...
A towering figure in the American Civil Rights Movement is being remembered not just for the history he helped shape — but ...
The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...
Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.
When I read about civil rights activist and minister Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. passing away earlier this month, I thought ...
The tears began to flow before Sandra Murphy could finish sharing a memory. “It was an honor; it was a pleasure,” an emotional Murphy, who runs Flambeau’s Live in Youngstown, said. Murphy was ...
Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...
Jocelyn Benson’s journey to the Michigan governor’s race began with Viola Liuzzo, a mother from Detroit who set out for Selma in March of 1965 to join the fight for voting rights.
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The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after King, has died at 84
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...
The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...
The allegations against Cesar Chavez have brought renewed focus on Dolores Huerta, a woman who helped Chavez lead a national ...
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