The aftershocks registered both in America and abroad for decades afterward. Civil rights Gender equality At age 87, Jeannette Rankin, who as a congresswoman from Montana voted against U.S ...

In a second wave of U.S. immigration, people from Eastern Europe and Italy come to America ... on Washington to urge support for pending civil rights legislation. He delivers his famous ...

The ongoing struggle in America for racial equality has its roots in the trade of enslaved people, the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was ...

Nearly every few weeks in 1961, there was a critical battle for civil rights. For "Seven Days of 1961," reporters across the USA TODAY Network interviewed dozens of former activists and retraced ...

Following the American Civil ... the civil rights movement, as it showed that the Supreme Court was prepared to take action to end segregation in the USA. In 1865, the Civil War in America ended.

With a Nod to America's Civil Rights Legacy, Sen. Cory Booker Makes a Mark of His Own WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it ...

Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.

Cory Booker ended his record-setting speech the same way he began it, more than 25 hours earlier: by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.