Take in some of the sites and landmarks across the American South that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and the ...

A towering figure in the American Civil Rights Movement is being remembered not just for the history he helped shape — but ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

Photography played critical roles in both the Civil Rights and Black Arts Movements. Artists used photographs as artistic expression, an organizing tool, and a means of building c ...

Highway 173 is on its way to being named for Dr. Harry Blake, Pastor Emeritus of historic Mount Canaan Baptist Church of ...

Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

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 ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

The tears began to flow before Sandra Murphy could finish sharing a memory. “It was an honor; it was a pleasure,” an emotional Murphy, who runs Flambeau’s Live in Youngstown, said. Murphy was ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protégé of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader’s assassination, died ...