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

St. Louis' sit-in movement started with a Black woman named Pearl Maddox and women of the Citizens Civil Rights Committee. Trump's 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports take effect ...

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

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

Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the Civil Rights Movement met again Friday ... a few months after the sit-ins began. Bess was already a busboy when history was made that ...

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 ...

laid the groundwork for future civil rights campaigns in the city and beyond. Believe it or not, St. Louis was home to sit-ins aimed at desegregation as early as 1944. The movement was spearheaded ...

Sixty-five years ago, a group of high school students staged a peaceful sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in downtown Tampa. On Thursday, local leaders honored the civil rights activists ... of ...

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

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from the courage and humility of leaders like the late John Lewis, a hero of ...