Fields was the central character in the Supreme Court decision that hollowed out the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The court ...

The march was just one major event of the civil rights movement, calling for civil and economic equality for African ...

Voting rights, the work of the civil rights movement and racial justice took center stage on the National Mall Friday, with ...

The civil rights movement’s commitment to nonviolence wasn’t just moral but also strategic, based on a calculation of how the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Smith joined the Freedom Rides, challenged segregation across the South and spent decades mentoring generations of young ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 100 Black churches across the South were targeted from the 1950s-70s. Another wave of violence followed in the ‘90s ...

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 ...