“This is certainly the biggest rollback of civil rights since Reconstruction,” according to Mark Updegrove, a presidential historian and CEO of the LBJ Foundation. Trump’s policies and the ...

A lot of talk is dealing with “civil rights” these days. Black rights, white rights, gender rights, civil rights, legal rights, constitutional rights, social rights, natural rights, sexual rights, eco ...

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

President Donald Trump and his allies are seeking to rule through systematic intimidation. It has deep roots in American ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement ... during Reconstruction, and his ...

New Haven: Yale University Press. Bullard, Sara. (1993). Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The ...

Jemele Hill has upset thousands of people with her recent comments. CNN contributor Scott Jennings went toe-to-toe with the progressive writer over the Supreme Court allowing the Trump ...

Allen’s book is a local, community-history look at the Civil Rights Movement in the rural South between 1865 to 1965, examining newly freed people and their Hanover County descendants.

1. Martin Luther King Jr. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and theologian who became the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement. His ideology was rooted ...

Following in her footsteps were the women who made a difference in our city by taking the lead during the Civil Rights Movement. Topping that list is Maxine Smith, who was a brilliant and gutsy ...