By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

Cecil Bassett Moore was a Black American activist, lawyer and politician during the civil rights movement who operated mostly in Philadelphia. He was known for his more aggressive push for change and ...

In honor of Black History Month, the National Civil Rights Museum is proud to present a virtual book talk featuring award-winning historian Crystal R. Sanders, author of A Forgotten Migration: Black ...

Georgia was at the center of the fight for civil rights and throughout the decades, WSB has been committed to covering the ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

NEW ORLEANS - Tulane University is set to host "Moving the Chains," a discussion on professional football's role in the civil ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter.

Rev. Walker worked closely with King and would be the one to bring King’s Letter from Birmingham Jail to public attention. He ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

Symbols really do matter. Trump has placed a picture of President Andrew Jackson in the Oval Office. Jackson was an owner of ...

Isom Clemons Civil Rights Memorial Park honors longtime leader of union that played a key role in the movement in Mobile.

No other president, Republican or Democrat, has ever used a Black History Month proclamation for such crass self-promotion.” ...