Founded in 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders, the SCLC has been at the forefront of social ...

Attorneys for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the civil rights organization King helped found, say the Trump administration’s haphazard release of the JFK files should give ...

The walk acts as a fundraiser for continued maintenance to the facility, and a remembrance for those who walked 10 miles to ...

So now we live in a time when Americans in power ignore the Constitution and curtail freedom of speech, freedom of assembly ...

This Juneteenth we need to discard the caricatures of King that we so often see and learn from what he actually did and ...

Beginning on Juneteenth, the sole copy of the federal orders that freed enslaved Black people in Texas will be on display in ...

With the sounds of birds and insects accompanying a humid mid-June morning, dozens of walkers trekked to keep a piece of ...

Ludlow, Colorado, 1914: eleven thousand mine workers had been on strike for seven months against John D. Rockefeller’s ...

Carl B. Stokes reflected on his political career in Cleveland in his book, “Promises of Power: A Political Autobiography." ...

In his new book Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights, Peniel Joseph writes how 1963 was a landmark one for the Civil Rights Movement. Now, Joseph says, the United States ...

The National Civil Rights Museum has participated in events and offered exhibitions that celebrate and support the LGBTQIA+ community. When we defend LGBTQIA+ rights, we defend the right to tell ...

Free museum admission on the federal holiday Thursday, June 19Memphis, TN, June 16, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The National Civil Rights Museum is celebrating the Juneteenth holiday on June 19 with ...