By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

"To be at the age when he did this, I cannot fathom how much he went through and how traumatizing it was," granddaughter ...

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

Every February, the nation comes together to honor and celebrate Black History Month, a time dedicated to reflecting on the ...

A photo of King pointing to a bullet hole became "one of the iconic images of the civil rights movement," according ... about 20 rooms with bathrooms, a lunch counter and a popular jazz club.

It was at that time when she got involved in the Civil Rights Movement by participating in lunch counter sit-ins while ... documents, and pictures stewarded by The Urban League of the Upstate.

What’s your definition of work? Ask the kids and they might say homework or chores, maybe a part-time job for teens. Today’s ...

The dogs, hoses, and armored cars were not effective in the way that Bull Connor and much of white Birmingham wanted them to ...

Fikes’ deep roots in the Civil Rights Movement date from the 1960s. As a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Fikes sat in at lunch counters ... for the rest of his life. Televised ...

on the 65th anniversary of the lunch-counter sit-in that ultimately sparked similar protests across the nation in advance of the Civil Rights Movement. “His leg was shaking at the table ...