The bus boycott and one-man pub sit-in that he led in the mid-1960s helped pave the way for a law outlawing discrimination in ...
Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, ...
The president of the Daisy Bates House Museum Foundation, Charles King, said that Bates' home was the headquarters of the ...
A prominent African American church in Alabama that was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement has been honored with an ...
ATLANTA - Tributes continue to pour in for legendary producer and composer Quincy Jones, who passed away Sunday night. In Atlanta, Jones is not only being remembered for his contributions in music, ...
In the wake of a tumultuous presidential election, columnist Alma Rutgers reflects on how casting her first vote in 1964 ...
Maxine became the first African American to teach at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Health. the first woman on ...
For Robert Sibley, voting is a very important duty at any time. But when he cast his vote at the Shiloh Baptist Church precinct on Tuesday, it was even more special. Sibley’s uncle, the Rev. Horace C.
She also listed the property on the rental site Airbnb marketing its civil rights legacy and sold museum memberships and ...
Dr. Paul Stephenson, a civil rights leader who transformed Britain's social order, died on Nov. 2. Stephenson was 87.
As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.