To mark Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, "Sunday Morning" talks with some of those who were engaged from the very beginning ...

Civil rights protests are being held across the United States on Thursday, five years after the death of John Lewis. July 17 marks five years since civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis died.

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Georgia congressman John Lewis was in the Bay Area Wednesday. He met with high school students, all part of a tour to promote peace and his bestselling books about the civil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CHICAGO — Civil rights activist and Georgia congressman John Lewis was known for saying he got into "good trouble" by using ...

Civil rights protests are being held across the United States on July 17, five years after the death of civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis. Thursday marks five years since Lewis's death. In ...

Human Rights Watch on Thursday condemned Georgia’s new laws stating they effectively criminalize peaceful protest by imposing heavy fines and empowering police to detain protestors. These measures, ...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Protesters gathered in Harrisburg as part of the “Good Trouble Lives On” national day of action, a movement inspired by the late Congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis. While ...

I have civil rights on my mind these days. And as I write on this national holiday with some celebrating Martin Luther King ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit-in ...

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 ...

RALEIGH, N.C. — Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit-in ...