The school students took part in a nonviolence training session as part of the Kingian Nonviolence Peace Warriors, or Peace ...

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

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

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

Large sections of educators had no confidence that the Chicago Teachers Union would bring back a better deal, let alone lead a fight against Trump.

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 ...

His gruesome death, brought starkly home by his mother’s insistence on having an open casket at his funeral in Chicago, became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. “She also ...

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 ...