An Alabama home where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in the 1960s calling for Black voting rights has been ...

A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...

Lake Erie College will host a public talk by Van Gilmer, a figure in the American Civil Rights movement, at 6 p.m. Aug. 11 at Morley Music Hall, located at 391 W. Washington St., on the college campus ...

Alan Reuther is a former lawyer and legislative director for the United Auto Workers – and now an author – whose work in ...

2. Rosa Parks Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.

The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis highlights Bayard Rustin's pivotal role in the civil rights movement with a new ...

A concert, art show and sit-in march and reenactment are on the list of activities for the 2025 Oklahoma City Sit-in commemoration ...

Plant your feet anywhere in Charleston's historic district and know that the city would not be what it is today without the ...

Mrs. A.J. Morton & Son Funeral Home joins the African American Civil Rights Network, honoring its vital role in civil rights ...

That’s how we tell the whole story of the movement. Clarence Alvert Laws’s triumphant tale is one of many that the Caddo Parish Civil Rights Trail aims to tell. This is his story.

The book details the county's history from its geological formation to the present, focusing on the lives and experiences of its citizens.

One of Wells’ notable contemporaries was the civil rights activist, journalist and teacher Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954). Terrell was one of the first Black women in the nation to earn a ...