In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...
Content warning: This piece includes an account of an apparent suicide.
In a sweeping and unprecedented letter issued over the weekend, the Office for Civil Rights declared race-based scholarships, ...
Judge L. Clifford Davis, the first Black judge to be elected in Tarrant County and the civil rights lawyer who helped ...
The National Civil Rights Museum is hosting a virtual book talk about the effects of segregation on HBCUs during Black ...
L. Clifford Davis was born into segregation, so he never attended an integrated school. But he fought to ensure future generations could.
Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...
Donald Trump’s measures ending government diversity efforts are part of a much broader effort to reverse civil rights gains ...
Thurgood Marshall was born in 1908 in Baltimore, Maryland, during a period when racial segregation and discrimination were deeply entrenched in American society. Marshall’s early exposure to the ...
Rudolph, who was blinded in the bombing, recounts the terror of segregation in Birmingham and the long fight for justice for ...
Occupying seats in defiance of racial segregation on buses and lunch counters had become hallmarks of the civil rights movement. Most often, the sit-in protesters paid a fine or posted bail after ...
Current and former Virginia leaders are recalling the first Black mayor of Richmond for his trailblazing career and lifetime ...