Baker's work was instrumental in the success of the NAACP and other organizations, but she did it in a way that didn’t put ...
The Selma, Alabama, home where Martin Luther King Jr. planned historic civil rights marches in 1965 opens June 12 at ...
The 14th Louisiana Civil Rights Trail marker has been installed in the City of New Orleans by Louisiana's Office of Tourism.
Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the ...
Heading out to learn Mississippi this summer? This is a list of state landmarks that shaped the Black civil rights movement ...
The civil-rights movement succeeded because federal agents and protesters alike showed restraint. Officials in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Washington could learn a few lessons from the civil-rights ...
Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself ...
The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...
On June 6, 1966, on a stretch of Highway 51 just south of Hernando, Mississippi, a portly, middle-aged white man named Aubrey ...
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