Another Civil Rights Trail marker is honoring the legacy of African Americans who refused to let racism deny equal rights. A ...

The National Civil Rights Museum has launched a new educational institute grounded in the teachings and philosophy of the ...

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The Trump administration argued that Harvard unlawfully discriminated against Jewish and Israeli students, in violation of ...

Young said a new Civil Rights curriculum he endorses gives students the facts and figures about what drove the movement and ...

“We are not going down without a fight. We are not going down to Jim Crow maps,” said Shalela Dowdy, a plaintiff in the Alabama redistricting case.

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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 ...

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 ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement, died at 84. Jackson was a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther ...

Former Massachusetts State Representative and civil rights activist Benjamin Swan has passed away on Monday at the age of 92.

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 ...