As I was setting out candidate signs at the library before election day voting, the person parking next to me rolled down his window and thanked me for putting up ...

Johnson was a key figure in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement, frequently arrested for his activism. He organized protests against ...

The civil rights organizer helped lead the student sit-ins that desegregated Nashville’s lunch counters and later became a ...

The 1965 Selma marches would later be known as “Bloody Sunday,” citing the violent attacks against civil rights protests, which were all captured on live television. We know the leaders of the ...

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, ...