The Urban Civil Rights Museum, Harlem, New York City’s first museum dedicated to the American Civil Rights Movement, is set ...

For Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the North's civil rights story has lived too long in the shadows.

The Black Academy of Arts and Letters’ invite you to the 43rd Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert on January 18 ...

“The civil rights movement isn’t a static event in our history but the collection of decades of events, leaders and activists pushing for change.” Most Americans support teaching a thorough history of ...

The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum celebrated 30 years with West African Gullah-Geechee performances, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book that brought history to life and became an essential chronicle of the ...

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 ...

The church was the starting point for the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches in 1965. Nearly a quarter of the trail’s ...

U.S. history is a story of contradictions. A 245-year struggle between the lofty ideals expressed in our founding documents and the harsh reality of life for millions of African Americans and other ...

The teams visited the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Saturday as part of a 16-year Birmingham Bowl tradition that connects ...

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 ...