But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

An examination of the role of the SNCC and various SNCC committees in the Civil Rights Movement. Date 2012 C2012 20th century Type Books Physical description xiii, 200 p. ; 24 cm Place United States ...

Gender and the civil rights movement / Peter J. Ling and Sharon Monteith -- Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and 1957 Little Rock school crisis : a gendered ...

Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.), the first openly transgender member of Congress, says the Democratic Party must create space for disagreement on trans rights and welcome “imperfect allies” to the ...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is kicking off Pride Month by ordering the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk, one of a number of ships in the John Lewis-class, named for the assassinated LGBTQ ...

Trump’s acting assistant secretary for civil rights condemned the journal’s selection process as a race-based “spoils system”—one that probably merited federal scrutiny.

McBride pointed to the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and ’60s, which yielded legislation to end segregation, Black voter suppression and discriminatory housing and employment practices ...

In late January, just hours after the deadliest U.S. aviation disaster in more than 20 years—and as families and the nation were still grieving—President Donald Trump, without evidence, blamed ...

A veterans group has accused Pete Hegseth of a "deliberate insult to LGBTQ" troops by renaming a ship carrying the name of Harvey Milk.

The global Pride celebration in the nation's capital is taking place at a critical moment when LGBTQ freedoms are increasingly being threatened.

The organization traveled across the country urging Catholic students to support the Civil Rights Movement and sit-ins, an effort Varela got involved in following her college graduation. In 1963, she ...