The American Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has been well-documented by historians. SUNY Cortland’s Evan Faulkenbury, an assistant professor in the History Department, has found a story ...

The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in the ...

Freedom Trail marker on Farish Street honors three Jackson attorneys who risked their lives fighting for civil rights and ...

A Mississippi Freedom Trail marker was unveiled on Farish Street in downtown Jackson to honor three civil rights attorneys who fought segregation and defended equality during Mississippi's most ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – In the late 1950s and early 1960s the NAACP faced the “Red Scare” when many politicians and civic leaders believed communists were everywhere in the United States.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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

Civil rights activist Robert Moses has died at the age of 86. Moses endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped ...

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...