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Participants in Birmingham's 1963 Children's Crusade are speaking out about the U.S. Supreme Court's reinterpretation of the ...

Elaine Lee Turner's family took part in pickets, protests and sit-ins, and were part of the 1966 March Against Fear. Civil Rights Act turns 60: Reflecting with a prominent activist from the movement ...

Most Americans are familiar with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s — an era in which peaceful protests led by the Rev.

Last week, the Supreme Court further gutted what is left of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Court’s ruling was terrible ...

The 1965 law was mean to address fundamental inequities in American life, and was one of the signal accomplishments of the ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

It is impossible to overlook the pivotal role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played not only as the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement but also as its strategic and political architect. While his ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During this era, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, Black folks worked ...

A year into President Donald Trump’s second term, the federal government is flipping the logic of civil rights on its head, using the language of nondiscrimination to destroy the legal structures that ...