Claudette Colvin's arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat led to the Supreme Court case that ended bus segregation, yet ...

Take in some of the sites and landmarks across the American South that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and the ...

Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

A towering figure in the American Civil Rights Movement is being remembered not just for the history he helped shape — but ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...

Author Dylan C. Penningroth says that the fight for civil rights didn't begin with famous marches. What if the conventional narrative of the 1960s civil rights era, by its very nature, limits the ...

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 ...

Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books. But scholars and activists are ...

An app which showcases people, places and events on the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail is now available.

Foreword: "How we tell about the civil rights movement and why it matters" / Jacquelyn Dowd Hall -- Introduction: Exploring NASA in the "long" civil rights movement / Brian C. Odom and Stephen P.

HISTORY. MORGAN’S RICH LEGACY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SHAPED BY BOLD ACTION AND PURPOSE, ESPECIALLY BY ITS STUDENTS, INCLUDING THIS GROUP WHO RISKED THEIR OWN SAFETY FOR DESEGREGATION. FOR WHATEVER REASON, ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Federal cuts to cultural institutions across the nation have prompted Quad-Cities organizations to strengthen their efforts to preserve civil rights history. In January 2010, ...