Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality.

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

Ernest Withers took some of the most iconic photographs of the American civil rights movement. He was in the room, on the ...

The Rev. Jesse Louis Jackson, the towering civil rights leader whose moral vision and fiery oratory reshaped the Democratic Party and America, has died, a Rainbow Push Coalition spokesperson confirmed ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

As the nation reflects on the life and legacy of the Rev. Jesse Jackson, educators and students in Atlanta say his passing is ...

The Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968) wasn’t just another chapter in American history — it was a fight for dignity, equality, and the very soul of the nation. Through the lens of photographers who ...

Louisiana v. Callais “ could completely erase all, or most, of the gains of the civil rights movement’s crowning achievement,” Wendy Weiser, vice president for democracy at the Brennan Center, told ...

The Museum of Christian & Gospel Music is designated as a site along the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, announced by the ...

Organizers said the trail is designed to ensure these stories are experienced. The system features the Greenway Civil Rights ...

If you drive through the heart of Atlanta, you will inevitably see his name etched onto street signs that intersect with ...

Civil Rights TV, the world's first 24-hour television network dedicated to civil rights history, education, and future equity ...