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

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

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.

Music City's ties to trailblazing Black musicians like those are on vivid display in a video series by the Nashville Public ...

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

Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson has been at the heart of battles over press freedom and gender violence. She is sure of ...

I told the restaurant whom I’d be interviewing when I made the booking, and the sidelong glances make sense: am I really ready to interview international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson?

Included in the gathering at the club were a number of people who were in involved in the civil rights movement who ... Keystone/Getty Images Later that month over lunch at the Irish Embassy ...

“Where was the lunch-counter desegregation? Where was the civil-rights law ... and tie to get what are basically our rights? The student movement was positive, and without it we couldn ...

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 ...