When we think of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many iconic figures come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Americans saw the heroes of the civil rights movement on the national news, and then heard about the Ku Klux Klan's murder of a white homemaker from Michigan named Viola Liuzzo who had volunteered ...

Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy ...

The CIA monitored Mexican American and Puerto Rican civil rights activists fighting for equal education and to honor the late ...

The CIA has released documents showing it monitored Latino activists who had supported late civil rights icon Martin Luther ...

The Gideon vs. Wainwright Historical Marker in Panama City celebrates a landmark 1963 Supreme Court ruling. ©Dick Demarsico ...

LANSING — Civil rights activist Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. will be the keynote speaker at the 40th Annual Day of Celebration ...

Title IX facilitated the movement of civil rights cases from ... and Native American communities. Poverty, unemployment, voting rights, access to health care, and quality education remain the ...

The civil rights movement shows us that successful movements ... civil rights in America and held up an unflattering mirror to American society. Leveraging moments of violence and state repression ...

For an in-depth look at the American civil rights movement and ongoing human rights struggles across the world, check out the National Center for Civil and Human Rights. This 42,000-square-foot ...

"His work from the Civil Rights movement of the '60s to his later days ... this K-12 school in 1960 in one of the city's African American communities. After sitting empty for several years ...

The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute presents the moving story of the city's role in the civil rights movement, focusing not just on the past, but also on the continuing international struggle ...