Some Pennsylvania school districts facing civil rights investigations say they haven't heard from federal officials since ...

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Through nonviolent protests and other forms of civil disobedience, the Civil Rights Movement was a decade’s long effort to make racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and inequality illegal across ...

Veteran civil rights campaigner and activist Eamon Melaugh has died at the age of 92. Mr Melaugh was heavily involved with the civil rights movement in Londonderry and co-founded the Derry Housing ...

“The civil rights movement isn’t a static event in our history but the collection of decades of events, leaders and activists pushing for change.” Most Americans support teaching a thorough history of ...

In 1987, journalist Juan Williams helped illuminate the Civil Rights Movement with "Eyes on the Prize," a groundbreaking book that brought history to life and became an essential chronicle of the ...

Bishop Harris died Dec. 9 after a “long battle with cancer,” said his daughter Carlotta Harrell, who’s also chair of the ...

It is impossible to overlook the pivotal role Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. played not only as the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement but also as its strategic and political architect. While his ...

An old man once told me, “Son, the lighter your load, the stronger your stride.” Now I’m that old man and I’m grateful for ...

As part of our on-going power series, we explore the most impactful Civil Rights activists in American history, from Fannie Lou Hammer to Fred Hampton. Men and women as young as mere college students ...

There was a time when “civil rights” didn’t mean what it does today. “In the century after emancipation,” Dylan Penningroth tells us in his cogently subversive book, “Before the Movement,” “civil ...

U.S. history is a story of contradictions. A 245-year struggle between the lofty ideals expressed in our founding documents and the harsh reality of life for millions of African Americans and other ...