These foot soldiers in the Civil Rights Movement are the focus of Elaine Weiss’ “Spell Freedom,” a richly researched and detailed new history of the underground schools that sprang up ...

In his introduction to a summary version of the Freedom Budget, A. Philip Randolph, the great elder statesman of the civil rights movement who had inspired the 1963 March on Washington, wrote of ...

WASHINGTON _ Mississippi’s congressional delegation called for President Joe Biden Tuesday to award the late civil rights icon Medgar Evers the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's ...

Established in 2013, the Voices of the Civil Rights Movement platform was created to honor the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr ...

America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968.

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Monday was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. He was the mainstay of the Civil Rights Movement. We have ...

Civil rights activist Diane Nash once spoke about the civil rights movement as powered by agape—a love for humanity that drives us to justice. Now, that same spirit calls us forward.

Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement's original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers across Georgia when he urged a group of Generation Z and millenial activists to encourage young people ...

Interior Department Secretary Deb Haaland announced Tuesday that the National Park Service will potentially nominate 11 different sites from the U.S. Civil Rights Movement to be added to the World … ...