Related stories Related sites The civil rights struggle in modern times. 1954 -- U.S. Supreme Court declares school segregation unconstitutional in Brown ...

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At 93, the former U.N. ambassador and civil rights icon looks back on the unglamorous but essential labor that helped ...

On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department ...

A new study says intense school segregation by race and class is worsening — and it’s happening faster than just about ...

Harvard Law Professor Mark Tushnet, who once clerked for Marshall and chronicled his career in two books, reflects on how ...

Exclusive: Phyllis Thompson Hyatt was one of the “City Girls” protesting against racial segregation in the 1960s in South ...

Young ran for Congress, winning in 1972 before being appointed as ambassador to the United Nations by President Jimmy Carter.

From Jesse Jackson to Angela Davis, we’re honoring the last living Civil Rights icons who are still with us today. From the lunch counter to the ballot box to Selma marches to the Black Panthers, the ...

Wilmington native and civil rights icon Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil has died at 83. He was one of four Black freshmen from North Carolina A&T State University who staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth ...

Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, a key activist who led peaceful sit-ins that took place across the South, died Thursday morning. A press release published by his alma mater, North Carolina A&T University, ...

The ACLU is fighting to protect the use of disparate impact liability, a critical tool in advancing equality, as the Trump ...