For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

The Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC) was formed in 1964 at Scarritt College in Nashville. The group was led mostly by white students and focused on mobilizing other white students. On ...

"The civil rights movement was arguably the most important reform in American history. This book recounts the extraordinary and often bloody story of how tens of thousands of ordinary blacks overcame ...

It's been 60 years since the 1964 Civil Rights Act was signed into law. Across the country, civil rights groups, scholars and others have commemorated the landmark law with panels, comprehensive ...

The civil-rights movement succeeded because federal agents and protesters alike showed restraint. Officials in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Washington could learn a few lessons from the civil-rights ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

Set in 1960s Florida, this powerful documentary uncovers a hidden chapter of the Civil Rights Movement. A courageous group of Black high school students organized peaceful sit-ins at a downtown lunch ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - There was a milestone moment in Columbia on Friday afternoon as a Richland County judge signed an order exonerating - and erasing - the criminal records of seven men who staged ...