When discussing the civil rights movement, many focus on its political and social implications. But we rarely hear about the economic ideals that drove the movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I ...

With election season upon us, it's important to remember the past. Two rural communities in West Tennessee drew national ...

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As one of the only women planning the March on Washington, Dorothy Height organized the logistics, mobilized the crowds, and was never given the microphone. What she built in response helped shape the ...

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 ...

“ The white cracker who wrote the national anthem knew what he was doing,” says the Black nurse Belize in Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, set in the 1980s, “He set the word ‘free’ to a note so high ...

There was a time when “civil rights” didn’t mean what it does today. “In the century after emancipation,” Dylan Penningroth tells us in his cogently subversive book, “Before the Movement,” “civil ...

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 ...

Rev. Ed King, the minister who stood up for what he believed in during the Civil Rights Movement, has died at 89. King took part in the famous sit-in at the “Whites-only” Woolworth lunch counter ...

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 ...

The tour company Road Scholar launched two new U.S. Civil Rights Movement trips for 2027, timed to the 10th anniversary of its original program.

CHICAGO — Illinois will annually honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 murder galvanized the Civil ...