Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her death ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...

Jacksonville has officially joined the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, with dozens of historical markers planned for the city. The markers will highlight significant locations from the Civil Rights Movement, ...

my mindset was on freedom and my mindset was on the hero. The women especially the women soldier on the truth and carry your stuff. So I was not going to move that. More than 60 years after Claudette ...