As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

“His civil rights history began in 1958 with the Montgomery bus boycott,” she said. “He was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee with Diane Nash. He was a ...

A Canadian neo-Nazi faces new assault and civil rights intimidation charges in conjunction with a previously unreported ...

A neo-Nazi from East Tennessee has been indicted on civil rights charges following an antisemitic stunt he pulled earlier ...

In honor of Black History Month, we're taking a look at three Nashville landmarks that played a major role in the Civil ...

The Saint Mary's Division for Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Gender and Women's Studies Department hosted the 'Hidden in Plain Sight' lecture to highlight historical Black women, including South ...

Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for families in ...

The movement was Fannie Lou Hamer, Septima Clark, Rev. John Lewis, Andrew Young, Diane Nash ... forgiveness and reconciliation." The civil rights movement was a vibrant and grace-filled expression ...

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s social justice movement was facing overwhelming obstacles, including a White backlash to Black progress. But King did something that eludes many of today’s leaders on the ...

The following five stories are a great place to start if you're interested in learning about historic places, people and events that are tied to Shreveport and connected to the American civil rights ...

Diane Nash, a civil rights activist who knew King, was a central figure of many of that movement’s most significant victories. She was a leader in both the sit-in movement and the Freedom Rides ...