Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books. But scholars and activists are ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The NAACP, the oldest civil rights organization in the U.S., has hired a former Biden Justice Department official to head its legal advocacy work. Kristen Clarke, who previously led the DOJ's Civil ...

The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) wasn’t just another chapter in American history — it was a fight for dignity, equality, and the very soul of the nation. Through the lens of photographers who ...

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 ...

Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

An app which showcases people, places and events on the Oklahoma Civil Rights Trail is now available.

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