His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...

In 1963, the site of Hunter B. Andrews Pre-K-8 School in Hampton was once home to Dixie Hospital, a focal point during the ...

It’s not as fraught as World War Two. It’s not as fraught as the 1960s, with Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement and a seemingly endless supply of domestic bombings. It’s not as fraught as ...

After a stint with the minor-league Montreal Royals, Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play in Major League Baseball and a key contributor to the civil rights movement in the United States.