Montgomery, 36, is being held as a federal inmate in the Pike County Jail in Pikeville, Kentucky, according to the jail’s ...

Heat is so intense on rooftops, where workers tote tar buckets and brandish blow torches, that roofers must kneel in long pants on thick foam rubber to keep from burning their legs, Puckett said.

Chris Washburn turned 59 in May. For much of his life, it’s not something he thought he’d ever see. “I didn’t think I’d be 25 ...

The sit-ins spread to more than a hundred cities, and within six months, the Greensboro lunch counter—now part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History —was desegregated.