For Mr. Person, the campaign was an illustration of the power of nonviolence and collective action. It was also a deeply ...

In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...

Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy of ...

Among the thousands who fought for voting rights during the 1960s civil rights movement was Capitola resident Maria Gitin, ...

Peter Yarrow, the singer-songwriter best known as one-third of Peter, Paul and Mary, the folk-music trio whose impassioned ...

Drawing on extensive new material, Nathans’ insightful history of Soviet dissidents introduces remarkable individuals who courageously and selflessly tried to pursue civil rights from the 1960s ...

In 1974, a white Louisiana factory worker sued for reverse discrimination and lost. The nation is still struggling with the ...

So, how can we make sense of what comes next for the climate movement by looking back to the Civil Rights Movement?

Here is a roll call of some noteworthy figures who died in 2024 (cause of death cited for younger people, if available): ...

Fans loved the smooth sounds of jazz and catchy doo-opp tunes of the 1950s. This list includes the biggest artists of the ...

He joined the firm Willis & Knight, but politics was in his blood. In 1983, he was elected Tennessee Democratic Party chair ...