"Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only-or even always the ...
Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Updated on April 29 at 9:58 p.m. The Supreme Court on Wednesday, in the case of Louisiana v. Callais, struck down a Louisiana ...
As the fight for civil rights continues to evolve, activists of today are raising questions about how far the nation has come since the era of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and where progress has stalled ...
African American and Latino/a activism(s) and relations: an introduction / Brian D. Behnken -- From the "next best thing to one of us" to "one of us": Edward Roybal, Gilbert Lindsay, and racial ...
The City of Greensboro is continuing its efforts to preserve and highlight local Civil Rights history through a $75,000 ...
W.E.B. Du Bois, a pioneering scholar and civil rights leader, is the focus of a new documentary that examines his lifelong fight against racism in the United States and abroad, while also highlighting ...
The Alabama Senate is poised to vote on its own plan to erase at least one Democratic U.S. House seat held by an African ...
From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...
*The Fourth of July, also known as Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. While many Americans ...
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) — Brick by brick, beam by beam and shingle by shingle, a house where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in support of Black voting rights in the Deep South ...
A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that spanned decades. At the heart of this movement were peaceful demonstrations, ...
Following a U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tennessee lawmakers returned to redraw the state's sole Democratic-leaning congressional district.