The decision kicked off decades of debates over discrimination and educational access in communities across the nation. The ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

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 ...

The students protested that Black people were not allowed to check ... activist Another outstanding woman of the Memphis Civil Rights Movement was Cornelia Crenshaw. After graduating from Booker ...

Over 200 residents marched from the Bonneville County Courthouse to the bridge on West Broadway Street during the women’s march. | Daniel V. Ramirez, EastIdahoNews.com IDAHO FALLS — More than 200 ...

Sen. Ted Cruz has likened vouchers to “the civil rights issue of our time." But critics note they were used in the 1950s to fight integrated schools.

As the school voucher debate unfolds this legislative session, both sides have attempted to pick up the mantle of the 20th-century Civil Rights Movement ... by racist white people who sought ...

On Saturday, April 5, a symposium on race will honor the legacy of Marjorie Rushing Baroni, who was both a White woman and a ...

"I'm a history teacher by trade, and how can one not be inspired by people in the civil rights movement? People who put themselves on the line for something bigger than themselves?" Steinberg asked.

President Donald Trump has signed a slew of policies aimed at wiping transgender people out of government records, sports and ...