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 ...

The Civil Rights movement remains a defining chapter in American history, but interpretation evolves as new questions arise. Scholars use different structures to trace long-term struggles, regional ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

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 ...

Montgomery, Ala., helped shape America — from the cradle of the Confederacy to the birthplace of the civil rights movement to the city's draw today as the place to reflect on the legacy of slavery.

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

Civil rights leaders in Virginia on Wednesday denounced a political campaign opposing the state’s April 21 redistricting ...

Nashville's significant role in the Civil Rights Movement is often overlooked due to its strong association with country music. The city was a training ground for nonviolent protest and educated key ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

Forty family members and friends gathered at Beaverdale Memorial Park Friday to lay to rest the cremains of Winston Henry Lockett -- a Hillhouse High School graduate, labor organizer, and civil rights ...

Bernard LaFayette, a key early civil rights organizer who helped integrate lunch counters and public spaces in Nashville and across the South during the 1960s, died March 5. He was 85. LaFayette once ...

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 ...