A Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum is planned near the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Pullman.

Chicago white racists were notorious for ... increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Friday marked the 57th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The civil rights icon spent time in Chicago fighting for racial and economic equality for ...

Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became ... Latino and poor white groups in Chicago under a shared vision of community empowerment and political resistance.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The Chicago City Council's Finance Committee rejected a $1.25 million settlement Friday in the civil rights lawsuit over the fatal police shooting of Dexter Reed during a traffic ...

A blockbuster show at the Centre Pompidou in Paris spotlights 300-plus works by 150 artists of African heritage Located in a preserved 1930s development in Chicago’s West Side, the museum ...

Six decades after Nat King Cole’s death in 1965, his music is still some of the most played in the world, and his celebrity transcends generational and racial divides. His ...

His gruesome death, brought starkly home by his mother’s insistence on having an open casket at his funeral in Chicago, became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. “She also ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a difference for all Memphians.

Federal workers are being hit with more cuts — this time targeting the Office of Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. Several Chicago-based workers were let go in the cut to the ...

Morris had an expansive vision of freedom that went beyond his antislavery work. Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Morris’s activism was multifaceted.