When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

We are approaching the 65th anniversary of a historic Civil Rights Movement event here in the Triad, known as the Greensboro Sit-Ins.On Feb. 1, 1960, four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...

Satellite photos offer some sense of the destruction in the territory, which has been largely sealed off to journalists and others. In all, the strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea is about 360 ...

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

Ruth Ann Butler died on Jan. 15 at age 81. She was a historian, part of the Civil Rights Movement in Greenville and founder ...

The work of people like Claudette Colvin, Rosa Parks, Dr Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X led to the passing of civil rights acts and Supreme Court rulings to end segregation. These judgments ...

An iconic North Carolina building that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement is now officially a historic landmark. The F.W. Woolworth Company Building in Greensboro was recently ...

"Don't sit around waiting for others to do it. You're never too young or too old to get involved in the movement," said ...