Walk through Alabama’s Civil Rights Trail, from Montgomery to Selma, and experience the landmarks that shaped America’s path ...

If the first civil rights movement was defined by three words—"We Shall Overcome"—then the second civil rights movement has been defined by three different words: "Black Lives Matter." ...

Juan Williams is giving new eyes to a project that he first started more than 30 years ago, penning a book on what he describes as the growth of a 21st century civil rights movement. “New Prize ...

The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of political action. It was a movement led by people from all over the country, all fighting racism in local ways, creating ...

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.

Understanding the civil rights movement as a labor and economic movement. Legalized segregation was an economic system that determined people’s livelihoods, says history professor Robin D.G. Kelley.

With one photograph, a mother exposed America's racism. With one photograph, ... The Photo That Changed the Civil Rights Movement. 3 minute read. By TIME Photo. July 10, 2016 12:46 PM EDT.

America’s First Civil Rights Movement, From the Revolution to Reconstruction By Kate Masur Illustrated. 456 pages. W. W. Norton & Company. $32.

The 1960s civil-rights movement inspired blues and jazz songs about the setbacks, hardships and hard-won victories that moved (and that continue to move) America closer to racial equality.

The Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C. recently hosted an event to focus on how some pretty low-key foods were critical to America’s civil rights movement in the 1960s. Jessica Carbone ...