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 ...

The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Eric Foner: In the language of the nineteenth century, there are various degrees of equality.

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

Morris had an expansive vision of freedom that went beyond his antislavery work. Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Morris’s activism was multifaceted.

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

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

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 ...