City Council passed a resolution Thursday to make March 17, 2025 “Bayard Rustin Day" on what would have been the trailblazer's 113th birthday.

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

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led sit-ins and other acts designed to provoke arrest, making the injustice of those laws visible to the public. The civil ...

Everyday women” of the Civil Rights Movement should inspire Christians today to become “courageous resisters,” according to ...

The late Augusta Yvonne Thomas graduated from Central High School in her hometown of Louisville. Growing up, she also lived ...

The first phase of the movement will involve sit-ins in front of state assemblies in Patna on March 26 and Vijayawada on ...

By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer Gwangju, Tiananmen, Sidi Bouzid, Yangon, Bangkok, and Kyiv — these are just some places that have exemplified the efforts of ordinary people in their fight ...

LeMoyne-Owen College recognized seven former students Wednesday for their key role in kickstarting the Civil Rights Movement ...

LeMoyne-Owen Junior College students who participated in sit-ins in the 1960s were recognized for their bravery on Wednesday.

The 24-day march from March 12 to April 5, 1930, ended with the defiance of the law after he made salt at Dandi marking the inauguration of the civil disobedience movement. Story continues below this ...

Sunday marks 65 years since the first sit-in took place in Savannah on Broughton Street. It was the start of the fight for ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting ...