Explore powerful sites along Virginia’s Civil Rights Trail where student activism, peaceful protest, and landmark legal ...

But going back is precisely what the legislature voted to do, as Tennessee became the first of the former Confederate states ...

(This story has been refiled to remove the video) By Donna Bryson SELMA, Alabama, May 18 (Reuters) - Betty Strong Boynton ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...

Two men watch as some 2,000 desegregation marchers pass on their way to the Houston School District Administration building in downtown Houston on May 10, 1965. On this date 60 years ago, President ...

SHREVEPORT, La. - A project that will be the first of its kind in the nation is happening in Shreveport. A local professor and his students are mapping thousands of points in Caddo Parish related to ...

GLENDORA, Miss — On a remote country highway running along the railroad tracks in Money, Miss., a historical marker stands on a corner where nature has overrun a building. It's what's left of Bryant's ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WAVE) - A new exhibit at the Roots 101 museum showcases the fight for Civil rights in Louisville was a joint effort between African Americans and those who stood against racial ...

COLUMBIA — Ten years ago, the Center for Civil Rights History and Research was just a dream. Documentation of civil rights history in South Carolina hadn’t been consolidated in an easily accessible ...

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's a special day for Black history in Fayetteville--a new commemorative marker celebrating the city's civil rights history was unveiled Friday in its downtown area. The ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) - Federal cuts to cultural institutions across the nation have prompted Quad-Cities organizations to strengthen their efforts to preserve civil rights history. In January 2010, ...