Take in some of the sites and landmarks across the American South that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and the advancement of social justice

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

When I read about civil rights activist and minister Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. passing away earlier this month, I thought about how almost all the heralded foot soldiers of the civil rights movement who were momentous leaders during my youth have left us.

As the fight for civil rights continues to evolve, activists of today are raising questions about how far the nation has come since the era of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and where progress has stalled. Though the Civil Rights Movement ended decades ago ...

The short life of American Civil Rights Movement icon Emmett Till was remembered on Continental Square in York 70 years after his murder in Jim Crow South era Mississippi, as part of a national observance Aug. 28. A group of about 30 people gathered for ...

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 the civil rights movement, when people in the 1950s and ...

Inquirer staff report The Kentucky Wesleyan College NAACP chapter and Black Student Union will host civil rights leader and Freedom Rider Hezekiah Watkins on Thursday, March 12, at 6

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia roots. King, co-author of the influential Appeal for Human ...

Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- Sustaining the momentum of the movement -- Sowing the seeds ...