Two Civil Rights Movement research fellows selected by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Their work will be ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a ...

A local group of high school students spent their Spring break touring some of the most Civil Rights landmarks through the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...

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

Hundreds gathered in Birmingham to honor the 63rd anniversary of a pivotal civil rights event, with foot soldier Paulette ...

Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr. and Viola Liuzzo did not die just for the conservative majority to commit this ...

HISTORY. MORGAN’S RICH LEGACY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SHAPED BY BOLD ACTION AND PURPOSE, ESPECIALLY BY ITS STUDENTS, INCLUDING THIS GROUP WHO RISKED THEIR OWN SAFETY FOR DESEGREGATION. FOR WHATEVER REASON, ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

Author Dylan C. Penningroth says that the fight for civil rights didn't begin with famous marches. What if the conventional narrative of the 1960s civil rights era, by its very nature, limits the ...

Memphis soul music became the “soundtrack of the modern Civil Rights Movement" as the city served as a bridge between the ...

There is an important distinction between then and now. Then, surveillance was constrained by practical limits. It required ...