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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...