A small cohort of researchers will continue their work reviewing Civil Rights-era cold cases, thanks to a bipartisan bill ...

Critics often compare climate activists to a sanitized memory of the civil rights movement as “a purely peaceful movement” to argue that radical and confrontational tactics won’t win hearts ...

Through nonviolent protests and other forms of civil disobedience, the Civil Rights Movement was a decade’s long effort to make racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and inequality illegal ...

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 ...

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - As President Donald Trump celebrates his first 100 days back in office, civil rights groups in Atlanta say a new movement is rising in response to his ...

Peniel Joseph writes about this pivotal year in his new book, "Freedom Season: How 1963 Transformed America’s Civil Rights ...

Dorothy Height, already a legend of the Civil Rights Movement and head of the National Council of Negro Women, convened the meeting. She had taken her place as one of the few key women organizers ...

Civil Rights Movement Freedom Riders Urge Younger Activists to Get Out the Vote ATLANTA (AP) — Charles Person, one of the Civil Rights Movement's original Freedom Riders, echoed organizers ...

Three days after the March on Washington in August 1963, tensions flared in Enfield, North Carolina, as hundreds of Black people who had picketed most of the day faced off with police and ...