The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they ...

On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department store lunch counter.King’s attendance at that protest reportedly violated his ...

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Statues of Rosa Parks and Helen Keller, pivotal figures who fought for justice and inspired change ...

President Emeritus of the Waukesha County NAACP Lillie Bell Wilson was a civil rights leader, a trailblazer and education ...

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Colgate University’s Latin American Student Association (LASO) hosted Samantha Ramirez Herrera in the Ho Science Center ...

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PEORIA, Ill. — An Illinois jury convicted a former sheriff's deputy of second-degree murder Wednesday in the shooting death ...

On Oct. 27, 1795, Pinckney's Treaty with Spain settled Florida's northern boundary and gave navigation rights on the ...