The community is celebrating 33 years of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and honoring former US Attorney General Eric ...

Veteran civil rights campaigner and activist Eamon Melaugh has died at the age of 92. Mr Melaugh was heavily involved with ...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott is marking its 70th anniversary. For 381 days, an estimated 40,000 Black Alabama residents stayed ...

Visitors to the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University can learn about her decades of activism before and after that fateful ...

When Americans think of the civil rights movement, we may think of the bridge in Selma or the boycott in Montgomery or the march on Washington, but if we remember a single image, it is likely ...

The plan to create a trail was initially approved in 2023, with the aim to connect 13 historically Black towns and significant Civil Rights locations.

Although largely forgotten, a little-known Tennessee school once powerfully influenced the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its ...

The South Carolina Civil Rights Museum has been named the 2025 recipient of the David W. Robinson Catalyst Award from Central ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights ...

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 ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. Journalist Mark Whitaker, author of the acclaimed memoir "My Long Trip Home," and "Smoketown: The Untold Story of the ...

A claim making the rounds online in November 2025 purported that fire hoses mysteriously turned off or ran dry during the ...