Iowa became the first state to remove gender identity from its civil rights code under a law that took effect Tuesday, ...

The Highlander Center hosted civil rights figures like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Stokely Carmichael in the 1950s and 60s.

This Juneteenth, Black Americans need true reform — not symbolism by Marc H. Morial and Shannon-Janean Currie, opinion contributors - 06/20/22 9:30 AM ET ...

The Highlander Center, which hosted civil rights figures like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Stokely Carmichael in the 1950s and '60s.

F or President Johnson to sign the Civil Rights Act into law on July 2, 1964, was a no-brainer: the date was a Thursday, just as it is this year, and the symbolism of marking the hard-fought ...

The school’s policies, theories and association with high-profile civil rights figures often drew the attention of the authorities.It was investigated for Communist ties in the late 1950s and ...

On March 7, 1965, civil-rights activists marched in Selma, Alabama, in support of voting rights. They were viciously attacked by local law enforcement, and the outrage over the violence helped ...

The Highlander Center, which hosted civil rights figures like Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and Stokely Carmichael in the 1950s and 60s, made the disclosure on its Facebook page Tuesday.

Juneteenth is the new federal holiday commemorating the notification of the last group of slaves in Texas that slavery had ended. Those newly freed slaves left the grip of raw servitude penniless.