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

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

“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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 landscape of civil rights activism has evolved significantly since the 1960s, with a new generation of leaders emerging to address contemporary challenges. These modern champions combine ...

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse Jackson’s Operation Breadbasket at age 13 ...

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 ...

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 ...