Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public ...
An app which showcases people, places and events on the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail is now available.
Take in some of the sites and landmarks across the American South that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and the ...
Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books. But scholars and activists are ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For many Americans, the scenes unfolding in U.S. cities resemble tactics more often seen in repressive regimes than in a democracy ...
The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...
A towering figure in the American Civil Rights Movement is being remembered not just for the history he helped shape — but ...
Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.
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 ...
Our father was a servant leader—not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked." ...
The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...