So now, The Root is taking a closer look at the anti-racist white heroes who were just as down for civil rights as Black folks throughout history. At age 18, Rev. Bruce Klunder knew he had to join the ...

Local news media during the Civil Rights movement downplayed peaceful Black protests about segregation while portraying white people sympathetically even though they violently resisted integration.

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 ... More during the Montgomery bus ...

On Palm Sunday, April 13, the Titusville Memorial Marker Committee along with St. Paul Lutheran Church dedicated a marker honoring a white ... of the civil rights movement. “During the civil ...

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 ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement ... them in all-white private ones.

“The civil rights movement ... The White House dismissed the report as a “backward-looking indicator” and blamed the downturn on policies under President Joe Biden. Trump responded during ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – The city ...

In the Clinton White House, I was the liaison between the White House counsel’s office and the Justice Department. I served during the ... Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement fought, suffered ...

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 Negro Experience in White America and ...

ExploreNikema Williams steps down as chair of Georgia Democratic Party Atlanta, often referred to as the cradle of the civil rights movement ... compared to 42% of white voters and 55% of Latino ...