Take in some of the sites and landmarks across the American South that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and the ...

Chavez became the face of Latino civil and labor rights in the media and in history books. But scholars and activists are ...

The godfather of the movement was born on March 17, 1912, and should be celebrated as a history maker, particularly as the United States approaches its 250th anniversary.

Black victims are usually forgotten footnotes of history.

The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

These Black activists fought for civil rights over decades. Here are their warnings, and advice, for American protesters today.

As the fight for civil rights continues to evolve, activists of today are raising questions about how far the nation has come since the era of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and where progress has stalled ...

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

When I read about civil rights activist and minister Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. passing away earlier this month, I thought about how almost all the heralded foot soldiers of the civil rights movement ...

The late Cesar Chavez, one of the nation's most prominent civil rights leaders, has been accused of sexually abusing girls and women.

Rethinking social movement theory : race, class, gender, and culture -- Exclusion, empowerment, and partnership : race gender relations -- Women and the escalation of the civil rights movement -- ...

Bernard LaFayette, a key early Civil Rights organizer who helped integrate lunch counters and public spaces in Nashville and across the South during the 1960s, died on March 5. He was 85. LaFayette ...