Mattie Jones and Rhonda Mathies are local icons and legends from the Civil Rights moment. They made headlines for decades in their work for equal rights. Jones and Mathies have seen and experienced a ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

FIGHT FOR EQUALITY 🗣️ Memphis' importance in the fight for civil rights dates to the Civil War when the city was under Union occupation.

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...