As a leader of the Commandos, Fred Reed provided protection for civil rights protestors during 200 nights of marches in the ...

It’s about the South — about segregated buses and lunch counters, police dogs and fire hoses, courageous struggle and long ...

Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was beaten in Alabama while working to integrate the interstate bus system as a ...

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 ...

Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: New York University Press. Crawford, Vicki L., Rouse, Jacqueline Anne, and Woods, Barbara. (Eds.).

Baring said the Commandos received national recognition from many prominent Black stars and politicians. The group had meetings with influential leaders in the civil rights movement, including ...

Instead, the latest work from Tony-winning playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins trains its lens on a Black family with deep roots in the American civil rights movement grappling with the impact of ...

A civil rights leader's family airs its ... Branden Jacobs-Jenkins trains its lens on a Black family with deep roots in the American civil rights movement grappling with the impact of that very ...