Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they ...

Explore 1950s America: TV's rise, Cold War tensions, McCarthyism, the Space Race, and the Civil Rights Movement's beginnings, including landmark desegregation rulings. Donald Trump's approval rating ...

A statue of the four freshmen who led the sit-in at the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On the ...

Photographer Steve Schapiro reflects on his past work. — -- In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. said in a sermon: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

Former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young says that he was often responsible for “the dirty work” during his time fighting for civil rights with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s. It seems an ...

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement to make their case about subsidizing private ...

A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott. A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who ...

On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store ...