The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of political action. It was a movement led by people from all over the country, all fighting racism in local ways ...

As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

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

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 ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was one of the most prominent leaders of America's Civil Rights ...

She stood up for her rights by staying seated: Rosa Parks gave the US civil rights movement a huge boost and inspired Martin Luther King Jr. And it was the year that two white men brutally ...

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 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 ...

Meet the powerful voices leading Civil Rights Movement 2.0, from attorneys to community organizers, who are tackling systemic racism.