Most Papuans say they were denied their right to choose and continue to demand a separate nation. Although the independence ...

Across from the raised flower beds and paved trails of the Boley Community Park sits the first historical marker of the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail.

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.

Though Black men had been granted the right to vote with the 15th Amendment in 1870, and Black women with the passage of the ...

The movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina, and spread through the South in the early 1960s. Several Southern ... just days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law.

Those years in the early 1950s were a time of chaotic retreat for the party ... Like many others of her generation, Dane was ...

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got ...

The movement started in Greensboro, North Carolina, and spread through the South in the early 1960s. Several Southern cities have held similar expungement ceremonies in recent years as the young ...

The movement ... In 1960 they were convicted. Today they are exonerated," Donaldson said. The arrests and convictions of the seven men went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Justices threw out ...