A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated ...

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 ...

Civil rights legend Bernard LaFayette reshaped the course of the nation. But what I remember most was his joy and unwavering ...

In March 2007, Jackson pledged his support for Barack Obama's campaign to become the first African American in the White ...

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 ...

Disclaimer: I wrote this in response to an individual on Instagram. They have a different point of view than what I have studied about pre-civil rights, especially in the 30s. Some of those effects of ...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, a civil rights icon, two-time Democratic presidential candidate and Greenville native, has died at the age of 84.

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 ...

Before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, scholars say Black-owned restaurants provided strategic cover for revolutionary ...

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 ...