Regan Prater set fire to the main offices of the Highlander Research and Education Center and took credit for it in encrypted ...

The Rev. Joseph W. Ellwanger, one of the few white Southern ministers who supported the civil rights movement and helped plan the Birmingham demonstrations in 1963, was honored with a historical ...

Lawson was an apostle of nonviolent protest — and close adviser to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights ...

Robert Nichols, a Republican from Jacksonville who is white, in a statement ... s assertion that voucher supporters were carrying on the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement.

ExploreNikema Williams steps down as chair of Georgia Democratic Party Atlanta, often referred to as the cradle of the civil rights movement ... compared to 42% of white voters and 55% of Latino ...

In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men. His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of ...

The civil rights movement in America aimed to get black Americans treated equally to white Americans. Between 1941 and 1970, its supporters faced continued opposition while fighting to improve the ...