Plant your feet anywhere in Charleston's historic district and know that the city would not be what it is today without the ...

Not only was Cox a legendary folk singer, but he was known, too, as a fighter for social justice during the Civil Rights Movement. Cox died Friday. He was 82. The story was first reported by KCUR.

2. Rosa Parks Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. Born ...

The riot began the gay civil rights movement. In 1969, Mark Segal was just 18 years old. He was at the Stonewall Inn on June 28 when riots at the New York City gay bar changed the course of LGBTQ+ ...

Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The Negro Experience in White America and the Music that ...

Peniel Joseph writes about this pivotal year in his new book, "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights Revolution." ...