A new historical marker in Montgomery honors Judge Thomas W. Gray Sr. for his civil rights activism and legal work.

Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon. A new telling of the story of the 1964 ...

Initially scornful of King and his strategies, Malcolm later began to recognize the worth of — and even began tentative ...

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For many, the story of the Civil Rights Movement begins somewhere in the 1950s, when cases like Brown v. Board of Education reached the Supreme Court docket and forever changed the landscape for ...

A new documentary chronicles the youth who took part in Tuscaloosa’s civil rights movement and their role in desegregating the city.

In this episode of The Cause: Conversations on Music, History, and Democracy, Dr. Reiland Rabaka journeys through the Civil Rights Movement and the longer Black freedom struggle that made it possible.

A group of African American anti-segregation demonstrators run for safety as they are sprayed with high-pressure water from fire hoses during a civil rights march in Birmingham, Alabama. The Civil ...

For nearly 80 years, Paschal’s has served Atlanta more than just soul food ...

Three of the four US presidents during the first two decades of the post-World War II Civil Rights Movement were from the south or southwest. They’d grown up white in segregated communities, embedded ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...