Richard Kurin, now a distinguished scholar at the Smithsonian, remembers Long during the 1990 Festival of American Folklife. In one tent, Long was telling tourists, “We’re in a church in Mississippi, ...

The U.S. Navy may rename ships named for prominent civil rights and other American leaders like Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Harriet Tubman, according to a report from CBS News.

The U.S. Navy may rename ships named for prominent civil rights and other American leaders like Harvey Milk, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Harriet Tubman, according to a report from CBS News. Harvey Milk ...

They've lost count of how many times they've been arrested, but even with a combined age of 180 years, American couple Joseph ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Civil Rights Memorial Center (CRMC) will partner with 21 Dreams Arts & Culture to showcase ...

A consortium of regional business, real estate, community and education leaders will participate in a symposium May 22 to begin working toward implementing housing solutions in Southwest Virginia and ...

In the first of two programmes, Reece is in Alabama, where he meets a woman who took part in the march back in 1965, plus a family who are creating a safe space for tourists exploring the countryside.

Civic leaders celebrated the completion of roof and stained-glass restoration at the historic Clayborn Temple in Memphis.

Ellwanger, one of the few white Southern ministers who supported the civil rights movement and ... 72 white protesters in a march to the Dallas County Courthouse in Selma on March 6, 1965, one ...

"We're here to remind people that there are human and civil rights ... Pilgrimage to Selma," and features a festival of arts and music ahead of the March to Restore Voting Rights across the ...

SELMA, Ala. — Florence Richardson knows all too well the grim story of Bloody Sunday. She was there on the Edmund Pettus Bridge 60 years ago and recalls it as vividly as if it were yesterday ...

"We're here to remind people that there are human and civil rights ... Pilgrimage to Selma," and features a festival of arts and music ahead of the March to Restore Voting Rights across the ...