The Society for Human Rights is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago. The society is the first gay rights organization as well as the oldest documented in America. After receiving a charter from the ...

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 in ...

Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist, first learned about the Rosenwald Schools in 2015 over lunch with Janie Syriac, an African-American preservationist. When he discovered no ...

Last week, a report from Black Press USA suggested that the Greensboro lunch counter display — a centerpiece artifact from the Civil Rights Movement — would be removed from the National Museum ...

people and events that are tied to Shreveport and connected to the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. Booker T. Washington High School was a school for African American students in ...

From the Antebellum South to the Civil Rights Movement, Black American Women Have Long Told Their Stories Through Quilts In a new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Renwick ...

The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist ... James Baldwin were agitating for more action by American leaders. Peniel Joseph writes about this ...

Rhythm and Blues wasn’t just a genre—it was a powerful force in the fight for civil rights. In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka explores ...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law on July 2, 1964. President Lyndon Johnson signed the bill using this pen and over 70 other identical pens that were then gifted to important figures in ...