“We are not going down without a fight. We are not going down to Jim Crow maps,” said Shalela Dowdy, a plaintiff in the ...

Thousands of people gathered in Montgomery, Ala., to mobilize support for voting rights amid outrage over racial ...

That's the mantra of a multiracial group of civil rights leaders and activists organizing opposition to a mostly white ...

A civil rights protest in Alabama this weekend was organized to kick off a summer of voter mobilization and civic action across the South.

A crowd gathered at a pivotal site of defiance in the civil rights movement, this time in opposition to efforts by ...

(This story has been refiled to remove the video) By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton ...

The year was 1965 and Black Americans had come to Montgomery, Alabama, to demonstrate peacefully voting rights.

When we reflect on the civil rights era of the mid-20th century, we often think of the momentous accomplishments of the ...

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

To get the photographs, he jumped over church pews during Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral, snuck into a cordoned off neighborhood to witness a Biloxi school integration and risked threats ...

The legacy of government surveillance directed at the civil rights movement is not confined to the past.