A discussion of the development of civil rights law in the US through the enactment of key legislation and formation of the ...

Although segregation in Las Vegas ended in 1960, UNLV Associate Professor Tyler Parry says that discrimination, racism and ...

When I read Thomas Gaither’s obituary in the New York Times, “Thomas GaitherKeep Your Head Down, Who Chose Jail After Civil ...

Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college ... marked an early success for the civil rights movement. But it would take until ...

For boomers, the rapid reversal of 1960s-era gains for civil rights, women, LGBTQ, etc., has unraveled the story of our ...

COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an ...

The 1960s civil rights movement was galvanizing ... For a roughly 13-year period, from the mid-1950s until King's assassination in 1968, pop culture became a conduit for the ideas of equality, freedom ...

From massive protests against racial segregation and discrimination in the 1960s to the fight against police brutality, African Americans have advocated for equality for decades. In the ...

Though Martin Luther King Jr. Day was officially recognized on Monday, students, staff and community members gathered in Bemidji State's American Indian Resource Center on Tuesday to celebrate not ...

The legislation followed an escalating series of demonstrations by activists in the 1950s and 1960s, amid the civil rights ...