Rev. James Lawson Jr., who died in 2024 at 95, is sometimes overlooked as a key deputy in the non-violent movement that transformed American civil rights.

The teams visited the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Saturday as part of a 16-year Birmingham Bowl tradition that connects ...

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For Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, the North's civil rights story has lived too long in the shadows.

“The civil rights movement isn’t a static event in our history but the collection of decades of events, leaders and activists pushing for change.” Most Americans support teaching a thorough history of ...

There was a time when “civil rights” didn’t mean what it does today. “In the century after emancipation,” Dylan Penningroth tells us in his cogently subversive book, “Before the Movement,” “civil ...

President Biden repeated a claim Monday that he was "very engaged" in the civil rights movement during the 1960s — a story that has changed as the president has told it over the years. Biden said that ...

Bull Connor, the commissioner of police in Birmingham, Alabama, had a message for the Ku Klux Klan: “By God, if you are going to do this thing, do it right.” That Sunday in May 1961, he promised the ...

The civil-rights movement is remembered for its stirring rhetoric and sustaining faith, but it also had another trait that’s required for a social movement to succeed: discipline. “Those of us who ...

Some Pennsylvania school districts facing civil rights investigations say they haven't heard from federal officials since ...

When we think of the Civil Rights Movement, opulent parties are probably not the first thing that come to mind. But it turns out, they were a big part of the fight for racial justice — especially the ...

Join the Center for American Progress for a conversation between former U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) and Fred Gray, a renowned civil rights attorney who represented Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., ...