A related movement, the white Citizens' Councils ... becoming the largest American civil rights group with numerous grassroots branches. Over the years, the NAACP focused on desegregating schools ...

The Disability Rights Movement, organized in the 1970s, has been similar to other movements in important ways. Attitudes ...

Even before his skull was fractured by an Alabama state trooper during the 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery march, John Lewis had, ...

Socialists in the US are more likely to be experts on the Russian Revolution than the American civil rights movement. That’s a mistake: this homegrown revolution is a strategic guidebook for ...

The first African American mayor of a major Southern ... However, once in office, Kennedy was slow to support the civil rights movement. It would take the dramatic and televised violence against ...

Far-right extremists have a plan to dismantle many civil rights protections that have advanced equality in America over the past 60 years.

A prominent African American church in Alabama that was deeply involved in the Civil Rights Movement has been honored with an ...

Francis Wilkinson is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering US politics and policy. Previously, he was executive editor for the Week and a writer for Rolling Stone. Civil rights — who gets to ...

Lawson remained a lifelong advocate for civil rights, immigrant rights ... was a key leader in the American labor movement, best known for coining the iconic slogan "I Am A Man" during the ...

The Arab-American Civil Rights League is calling for law enforcement agencies to bring hate crime charges against the suspect, 73-year-old Gary Lansky of Detroit. Last week, the Wayne County ...