Leaders like ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt and ZOA’s Mort Klein have successfully conflated any criticism — however justified — ...

Damon Hewitt is the President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before joining the ...

His commitment to nonviolent protest was tested repeatedly ... ground activism into one of the most dynamic voices in modern civil rights. A former elementary school teacher and policy leader ...

Earlier civil rights legislation was cautiously and narrowly drawn, designed primarily to anticipate and avoid Negro protest. It had a double and contradictory objective: to limit change ...

The reason King said that, Ingram learned, was a problem spreading the word within Montgomery’s black community about a protest that ... the start of the modern civil rights movement.

In today’s newsletter: President Donald Trump takes the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in an ... at Columbia University this week in protest of the war in Gaza.

Rosa Parks, the black woman whose 1955 protest action in Alabama marked the start of the modern US civil rights movement, has died at the age of 92. Mrs Parks' refusal to give up her seat to a white ...

Local Civil rights groups protest, outside the Naval Academy’s Gate One, an executive order by President Donald Trump that removed 381 books from the academy. Pastor Stephen Tillett, a retired Lt.

The American civil rights movement, a mass protest campaign against racial ... "The Rev. C.T. Vivian, a former Peorian, was in the trenches of modern-day battles for voting rights," the story ...

To protest her arrest, the Black community boycotted the Montgomery bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of ...

Kennedy called Coretta Scott King after learning of her husband Martin's imprisonment for leading a nonviolent civil rights protest ... boycottthat initiated the modern civil rights movement.