The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

While it's not finished yet, a bronze sculpture brings history to life by honoring the sit-in movement in Oklahoma.

In “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,” Brandon M. Terry says the familiar narrative modes of the era have warped our ...

The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) wasn’t just another chapter in American history — it was a fight for dignity, equality, ...

Brick by brick, beam by beam and shingle by shingle, a house where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches in support of Black voting rights in the Deep South has been trucked from ...

The Jackson Home, where Martin Luther King Jr. and others planned marches to call for Black voting rights in the early 60s in Selma, Ala., is shown being reconstructed at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, ...

A social justice center in Tennessee with deep connections to the civil rights movement said that a fire that engulfed its main office last week may have been intentionally set, after a “symbol ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they ...

The civil rights movement that gained strength in the 1960s was marked by citizen activism – as well as police violence ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...