Fields was the central character in the Supreme Court decision that hollowed out the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The court ...
The march was just one major event of the civil rights movement, calling for civil and economic equality for African ...
Voting rights, the work of the civil rights movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall Friday, with ...
The civil rights movement’s commitment to nonviolence wasn’t just moral but also strategic, based on a calculation of how the ...
Fighting injustice in 2026 must mean more than simply retracing the footsteps of those who fought in the Civil Rights ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sheen preached eloquently that racism and other attacks on civil rights were direct attacks on all human beings and, ...
New Orleans Civil Rights icon Jerome "Big Duck" Smith died after his battle with a lengthy illness, his family members ...
America was polarized during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Veterans from the movement say the racial backlash they feel today is reminiscent of the recoil they faced in 1968. Many Americans ...
More than 100 Black churches across the South were targeted from the 1950s-70s. Another wave of violence followed in the ‘90s ...