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 ...

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

Thursday, the community celebrated 33 years of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and honored former US Attorney General ...

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

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

The Treasury Department unveiled new coins celebrating America’s 250th anniversary. They failed to include planned designs ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

Bull Connor, the commissioner of police in Birmingham, Alabama, had a message for the Ku Klux Klan: “By God, if you are going to do this thing, do it right.” That Sunday in May 1961, he promised the ...

The civil-rights movement is remembered for its stirring rhetoric and sustaining faith, but it also had another trait that’s required for a social movement to succeed: discipline. “Those of us who ...

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