The Southern Courier dared to report on civil rights news in ways other publications would not. The Southern Courier, a Montgomery newspaper launched during the Civil Rights Movement, will receive ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - A Montgomery-based Civil Rights Era newspaper has received a historical marker honoring its coverage of historical events. Ellen Lake wrote for Harvard University’s ...

Civil Rights Roots New York Times v. Sullivan stems from an advertisement that ran in The New York Times during the Civil Rights Movement. Sponsored by the Committee to Defend Martin Luther King, the ...

Civil rights activists fought for the Voting Rights Acts 60 years ago. Some worry the law's protections are now at risk.

Viola Bradford reminisces about being a reporter at the Southern Courier newspaper during the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division had brought lawsuits accusing Louisiana of confining prisoners longer than they should and ...

The National Museum of African American History and Culture and the National Museum of American History are holders of some ...

Photographer Steve Schapiro captured the moment in an image of King linking arms with fellow civil rights activists John Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Douglas, James Forman and Ralph Abernathy.

In a New York Times guest essay, Sullivan marveled at how the gay rights movement traded a legacy of civil rights successes for radical ideas that are turning off modern-day Americans, like trying ...

A few weeks later, O.F.C.C.P.’s acting director proposed slashing its staff by 90 percent. In fewer than two months, six decades of civil rights enforcement was essentially dead.