In the midst of the passing of the Civil Rights Act, as it was being filibustered on the Senate floor, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X crossed paths on Capitol Hill.

Montgomerians marched in the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. along Dexter Avenue on Monday to honor the civil rights leader in a parade that was delayed nearly a month from MLK Day in January ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in response to protests in Los Angeles this weekend was the first time a U.S. president had taken such action in 60 years - and the last time ...

(THE CONVERSATION) On March 7, 1965, Alabama state troopers beat and gassed John Lewis and hundreds of marchers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. TV reporters and photographers were there ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who ...

The No Kings anti-Trump protests against Trump will be widespread and potentially historic like the 1960s civil rights ...

The current deployment has been ordered over the objection of the state governor and the city’s mayor, heralding a battle ...

The more relevant, and worrying, parallel may be the period from 1957 to the end of 1968, when military forces actively ...

A federal judge is weighing a request from the Trump administration to unseal records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. — files that the civil rights leader’s relatives ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.

It’s a global phenomenon: protest movements almost always seem to generate unintended consequences and often lack leadership ...

Trump sent National Guard troops to California amid days of protesting federal immigration raids. Here's what's usual, and unusual, about the order.