For Matthews, there was no disconnect between the civil rights and the school choice movements. The fearless icon also spent 50 years fighting for education freedom.

A new exhibit at Branigan Cultural Center showcases powerful civil rights photos from 1960–1970, many never before publicly ...

Wayne A. Santoro, The Civil Rights Movement and the Right to Vote: Black Protest, Segregationist Violence and the Audience, Social Forces, Vol. 86, No. 4 (Jun., 2008 ...

The weapon used to kill Black teenager Emmett Till in one of the most notorious lynchings that helped ignite the civil rights ...

The Voting Rights Act forged in Selma had been a triumph of the classic civil rights movement, the hinge between everything that came before and so much that would come after.

Emmett Till is on display for the first time, at a time when President Trump has ordered the government to minimize the ...

Another permanent exhibit tracks how the American civil rights movement relates to the larger global struggle for human rights, while a third features various personal effects of King’s.

The Louisiana Civil Rights Trail is steadily growing after officials in the state unveiled a fourth marker this week honoring a historic 105-mile march against anti-Black violence.

The year 1961 saw many critical battles for civil rights. Our "Seven Days of 1961" e-book goes inside those battles with the heroes that lived it.