The school’s policies, theories and association with high-profile civil rights figures often drew the attention of the authorities.It was investigated for Communist ties in the late 1950s and ...

He flinched. And looked away: He’d seen the image too many times. ... The Harvard-educated lawyer and great-grandson of a slave wants to erect his own civil rights symbols across the South.

Among the reasons are comfort with the uneven gains in civil rights, shifting demographics in urban political districts, and diffused affinities because of complicated personal histories.

Whatever symbols they embraced, civil-rights activists—much like black activists today—never successfully connected with the hearts of the majority of adults of their own day. The process was ...

The national president of a civil-rights group says Confederate symbols represent "treason" and should be removed from public objects, including the Mississippi state flag.

Chalk up another cherished American symbol that has quietly vanished under Donald Trump’s watch. A bust of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., once prominently displayed in the Oval Office, has been ...

When South African civil rights activist Nelson Mandela was released from prison in 1990, he and his wife both raised a fist in triumph. After 27 years in jail, he had become a symbol of the ...

By the time he was thinking of retiring from boxing, the 38-year-old Ali had become a symbol of the civil rights movement, black pride and black power the world over.

A Facebook user posted an image of the event with a message of his own about the fabric on the Democrats’ shoulders. It is called Kente cloth. "The Kente cloth was worn by affluent African slave ...

The paramount strength of our state is our rich-growing diversity, and if we are to leverage that strength, we must act and think inclusively. The people we elect and the symbols we choose to ...