While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

Worried about the future, marchers crossed the Edmund Pettis Bridge on Sunday in the 60th commemoration of one of the most ...

Well, you probably should. Not only was Cox a legendary folk singer, but he was known, too, as a fighter for social justice ...

Dave Dennis, a Shreveport native and civil rights icon, will speak at LSUS on Friday to discuss his role in the 1964 Summer ...

The National Center of Civil and Human Rights has announced a new partnership and substantial pledge amount from one of ...

A documentary about the civil rights protests in the summer of 1960 to desegregate a Maryland amusement park opens this ...

Civil rights experts worry bans on DEIA in education and government are part of a larger, ongoing push to undo the country's ...

The $500,000 gift will go toward the National Center for Civil and Human Rights' two-wing expansion currently under construction.