1991: Civil Rights Act of 1991: an amendment to the 1964 act, banning discrimination in the workplace. November 3, 1992: Carol Moseley Braun, a Chicago native, becomes the first African-American ...

Slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers is remembered each year during the NAACP National Convention, which opened in ...

LIVE AT 8 PM EASTERN: In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Chicago with a mission to expand the Civil Rights Movement from the South to the North. King led what became known as the Chicago ...

Richard Hunt” opens Friday at the Loyola University Museum of Art, spotlighting America's most prolific public art sculptor.

The Black Friday protests in Chicago's luxury shopping corridor highlight not just dramatic shifts in how US police respond to protesters, but also the maturing of the Black Lives Matter movement.

CHICAGO (CBS) --As we celebrate Black History Month, we're going to take you to a West Side church that has a powerful connection to the civil rights movement and the fight for housing equality.

CHICAGO (AP) – Bernie Sanders was in his first year at the University of Chicago, 20 and with a thick New York accent, when he -sanders-found-his-place-in-civil-rights-movement/">Read More</a> ...

Civil rights activist and historian Timuel Black at his home in Chicago in 2013. “You have an individual who, because of the span of his life, his lived experience, both witnessed history, made ...

Chicago civil rights legend Jesse Jackson turns 80 this week. ... the affectionate name for youths who grew up in the movement as their parents brought them into it.

'She Who Dared,' an opera about women in the civil rights movement, opens in Chicago A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

In the nearby town of Port Chicago, the explosion damaged buildings and injured residents. A total of 390 people were wounded that night. Chaos, confusion and fear gripped the darkened naval base.

LIVE AT 8 PM EASTERN: In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. traveled to Chicago with a mission to expand the Civil Rights Movement from the South to the North. King led what became known as the Chicago ...