The godfather of the movement was born on March 17, 1912, and should be celebrated as a history maker, particularly as the ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Greensboro sit-ins were a pivotal moment for non-violent civil rights protests in the early 1960s. This movement spread throughout the country, operating on a simple concept: ...

Rory McShane was among the generation of young nationalists who took to the streets in the late 1960 to demand civil rights. He looks back on that period and the path that took him to towards a distin ...

Historians say that a major milestone in the history of school integration is often left out of the civil rights story ...

Bernard LaFayette, a key early civil rights organizer who helped integrate lunch counters and public spaces in Nashville and across the South during the 1960s, died March 5. He was 85. LaFayette once ...

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...