“The U.S. Treasury Department closed the store the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941.” The Yasui Brothers Co. made calendars that they gave to customers every year.

Here's a timeline of Ferguson's activism, drawn from Charlotte Observer archives, his biography on the Ferguson, Chambers & ...

North Carolinians on Monday mourned the death of civil rights attorney James Ferguson, whose work helped desegregate schools ...

Trump's deployment of the National Guard to L.A. is the latest in a long history of elected officials sending troops in hopes of thwarting unrest.

The statue of civil rights leader Barbara Rose Johns has been approved by the Commission for Historical Statues in the U.S. Capitol, which is expected to be unveiled as part of the National Statuar… ...

So goes much of the production, an Atlanta-based world premiere hip-hop musical of the beloved Civil Rights icon who represented the city for 17 terms as its U.S. representative before his death ...

Although the National Guard has often been used against civil rebellion, deploying federal military forces within the U.S. is a drastic and historically rare move. I’ve studied the history and ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson federalized the National Guard in 1965, calling on troops to protect civil rights advocates who were marching from Selma, Ala., to Montgomery.