As a leader of the Commandos, Fred Reed provided protection for civil rights protestors during 200 nights of marches in the ...

Sen. Booker's stirring and eloquent display of endurance and passion gave Democrats and Americans the gameplan for combating ...

Lyndon B. Johnson hired Geri Whittington as a presidential secretary because she was the most qualified for the job. She also ...

Strom Thurmond bragged for years about dehydrating his body to prepare for his speech opposing the Civil Rights Act. He didn’t talk about his Black daughter, though.

In the last year of his life, Martin Luther King Jr.’s confidence in the politics of progressivism dimmed. Judgment became ...

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” starring Jimmy Stewart as a naïve senator, explores the idealism — and reality — behind the ...