Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

Clarence B. Jones, a civil rights attorney and close adviser to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. has died at age 95.

Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the city considered the crucible of the modern Civil Rights Movement to push back ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

As part of our on-going power series, we explore the most impactful Civil Rights activists in American history, from Fannie Lou Hammer to Fred Hampton. Men and women as young as mere college students ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During this era, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, Black folks worked ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...

This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across races. Instead, history followed a disappointing and familiar pattern. The ...

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For many, the notion of government surveillance feels distant, the start of a policy debate about wiretaps or monitoring phones. To us at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, it means ...