No dogs, no Negros, no Mexicans.” “Colored served in rear.” “For whites only.” It’s the type of signage that hung from the ...

Civil rights attorney Damario Solomon-Simmons learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre during college. This revelation inspired ...

From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

So it was for the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 legislation that protected Black suffrage by neutralizing voter suppression in southern states, and became the foundation for equal ballot access for all ...

For decades, the Supreme Court has steadily worked to transform the concept of discrimination based on race, from the civil-rights-era vision that the government has an obligation to remedy and ...

Department of Justice officials announced Tuesday that they have filed an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, a well-known civil rights organization, on charges in connection with "not ...

The White House is considering ending funding for a longtime civil rights election program aimed at protecting the rights of minority populations to vote, sources familiar with the matter tell CBS ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...

Jackson began his activism in 1960 with a "read-in" protest at a segregated library in his hometown. He worked alongside Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and led Operation Breadbasket to fight ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's ...

Jackson was inspirational orator and civil rights champion He sought 1984 and 1988 Democratic presidential nomination Washington, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Charismatic U.S. civil rights leader Jesse Jackson, ...