More recent efforts can be traced to the landmark Civil Rights Act signed in 1964 by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, which ...

The legendary attorney, who represented Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr., will have his portrait hang permanently at the ...

Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. The 1950s was a pivotal era in music, laying the groundwork ...

Starting in the 1950s, with the Civil Rights Movement gaining ground in New Orleans, Dooky Chase’s became a meeting place for activists and civic leaders, both Black and white. Such gatherings ...