While well-known figureheads, such as Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis and Ruby Bridges, have received lots of recognition (but still not enough), lesser-known civil rights leaders — Bayard ...

In 1939, Moreno pulled together the El Congreso de Pueblos de Habla Española, the first time Latino civil rights leaders from ...

As I woke on the day after Donald Trump's election back to the White House, I realized a painful truth—The country I love doesn't love me back. I sought a vision of a better country that cares ...

Channel 2′s Karyn Greer spoke with Ambassador Andrew Young about his most memorable moments of the civil rights movement. “I enjoyed the civil rights movement,” Young said. He was a ...

Well, maybe I should say some Fox viewers. As Black History Month comes to an end, I’ve been traveling across America -- from Seattle to St. Louis, from Chicago to Philadelphia – to promote my ...

Critics often compare climate activists to a sanitized memory of the civil rights movement as “a purely peaceful movement” to argue that radical and confrontational tactics won’t win hearts ...

“It propelled a movement that was able to make major civil rights gains,’’ said Melanie Campbell, president of the nonpartisan National Coalition on Black Civic Participation. The law ...

New Haven: Yale University Press. Bullard, Sara. (1993). Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The ...