Eight years after Parks’ death, on February 27, 2013, a statue of Parks was installed inside the U.S. Capitol in Washington.

This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man. That act of protest and her arrest sparked one of the most famous civil rights actions in American ...

ATLANTA — Georgia was at the center of the fight for civil rights and throughout the decades, WSB has been committed to covering the movement. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would ...

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the “dirty work” right away when he began working for the ...

A lieutenant to Martin Luther King Jr. and a fellow preacher, he played a vital role in organizing voting-rights protests in ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Johnnie Carr, who joined childhood friend Rosa Parks in the historic Montgomery bus boycott and kept a busy schedule of civil rights activism up to her final days, has died. She was ...

Hundreds gathered in Tuscaloosa on Monday for Unity Day in honor of the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Unity March, timed to coincide with the slain civil rights leader's birthday, ...

Montgomerians marched in the footsteps of Martin Luther King Jr. along Dexter Avenue on Monday to honor the civil rights leader in a parade that was delayed nearly a month from MLK Day in January.