The Mendez family is suing the City of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department, accusing officers of violating their civil ...

April 15 will be known as the birthday shared by two Chicago civil rights legends, former Mayor Harold Washington and unionist and activist Asa Philip Randolph. News Today's news ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Two Chicago civil rights legends, former Mayor Harold Washington and activist Asa Philip Randolph, were honored on their shared birthday.

A Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum is planned near the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Pullman.

Chicago white racists were notorious for ... increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked ...

They don't have a civil rights movement to coalesce around ... Rashad first joined the production ahead of its premiere run ...

From the Sun-Times archives Share This article has been republished from our archives as part of a series on the “Chicago 7 ... violations of the 1866 Civil Rights Act. The indictment naming ...

There was a benefit for SNCC McCormick Place in Chicago, that featured gospel groups with a chorus of freedom singers from across the south. The Civil Rights Movement challenged racism ...