While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

A section of the Arlington National Cemetery website dedicated to World War 2 veteran and civil rights leader Medgar Evers ...

Many on the Left are wondering what to do against the Trump administration’s vicious assaults on workers, immigrants, and ...

Today, as state legislatures across the country take up bills to ban trans youth from sports, California Governor Gavin Newsom weighed in on the topic on his debut podcast. In response, Advocates for ...

The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this ...

Iowa Republicans are seeking to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state's civil rights act, ending 18 years of protection from discrimination for transgender Iowans. House ...

Examining Cole through the lens of his activism uncovers the nuanced ways in which he challenged the status quo and contributed to the Civil Rights Movement. Beneath the polished veneer of his public ...

Established by Congress, the EEOC was made to uphold civil rights laws against discrimination in the workplace based on various factors of identity, such as race, color, sex, religion, age ...

She noted as examples the Black Panthers of the civil rights movement, eco-terrorists in the environmental movement, and “‘abolitionists’ like John Brown” in the anti-slavery movement.

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack ...

To protest her arrest, the Black community boycotted the Montgomery bus system, a pivotal event in the modern Civil Rights Movement. The way Parks took a stand for civil rights reflects many of ...