Rory McShane was among the generation of young nationalists who took to the streets in the late 1960 to demand civil rights.

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in Jacksonville.

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated ...

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters today.

As the fight for civil rights continues to evolve, activists of today are raising questions about how far the nation has come since the era of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and where progress has stalled ...

Nashville leaders are honoring the life of civil rights activist Bernard LaFayette, whose passing leaves a profound void in the city.

Williams’ chronicle would be more enriching by addressing presumed truths that are far from self-evident, for example, what differentiates the second civil rights movement from the first?

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

The short life of American Civil Rights Movement icon Emmett Till was remembered on Continental Square in York 70 years after his murder in Jim Crow South era Mississippi, as part of a national ...

Bernard LaFayette, a key strategist in the Civil Rights Movement who laid the groundwork for the historic Selma voting rights campaign that helped lead to the passage of the ...

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Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- ...