As the fight for civil rights continues to evolve, activists of today are raising questions about how far the nation has come since the era of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and where progress has stalled ...

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 ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — It’s been more than six decades since the Civil Rights Movement started to change America, as a result of the hard work and sacrifices of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many ...

Rejecting prevailing views of the movement as either exemplary or ineffectual, Brandon M. Terry offers a bold new vision of our history. By Matthew F. Delmont Matthew F. Delmont is a professor of ...

Bernard LaFayette, a key early civil rights organizer who helped integrate lunch counters and public spaces in Nashville and across the South during the 1960s, died March 5. He was 85. LaFayette once ...

On Martin Luther King Jr., Day, the nation reflects on the Civil Rights Movement by invoking a familiar cast of heroes. We repeat the same names, the same photographs, the same speeches—often without ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

Montgomery, Ala., helped shape America — from the cradle of the Confederacy to the birthplace of the civil rights movement to the city's draw today as the place to reflect on the legacy of slavery.

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For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Every February, Black History Month invites Americans to honor the giants of the civil rights movement. We ...