This week marks the 61st anniversary of one of the most disturbing protests of the Civil Rights Movement. The 1965 Selma ...
Today, the SPLC and the nation mourn the loss of civil rights and voting rights activist Bernard LaFayette. He was 85.
The event marked the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the most violent day of the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march for the ...
The first Black Women’s Rights Convention is held in Akron, Ohio. The keynote speaker was anti-slavery activist Sojourner Truth. 1966—Constance Baker Motley be­comes the first African American woman ...
This biography allows the reader to step into the mind of the nineteenth-century senator who saw in the Constitution, when ...
The American history of voting rights demonstrates that rights granted by the state are fragile and can be revoked by legislation and judicial decree, proving that true rights are inherent to ...
The major fighting of the Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, with the Union victory at the Battle of Appomattox Court House in Virginia. Sen. Henry Wilson of Massachusetts ...
This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. The Congressional Black Caucus and civil rights leaders launched a campaign to counter Trump administration ...
The indictment against journalist Don Lemon and eight others will likely be dismissed because it hinges on a charge that is viewed as so constitutionally flawed that the Justice Department's Civil ...
In a recent interview, President Trump said that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 resulted in white people being “very badly treated.” The 1964 Civil Rights act outlawed discrimination based on race, ...
The Civil Right Division of the Department of Justice was created in 1957 to act as the federal government’s independent investigative and enforcement mechanism for civil rights law in the United ...
Bernice King, the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., rebuked President Donald Trump for suggesting that the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which her father helped get passed into law, led to ...