Streetcars were a societal hub in 1870s Shreveport. And although we know that young boys and ladies used the mule-drawn ...

This protest was the spark that would eventually lead to the ... Wells was an investigative journalist and early civil rights leader who co-founded the NAACP, said the National Women’s History Museum.

The physicians in this Black History Month spotlight broke down racial barriers, advocated for communities, and advanced medical knowledge.

In these turbulent and sad times, it is hard to keep quiet about abuses and violations of human rights taking place around the world; in eastern DR Congo, South Sudan, Ukraine, and Gaza. Among the ...

In the mining state of Alabama, about 10 percent of its total revenue was derived from convict leasing in 1883. By 1898 ... of Chicago Law School’s Global Human Rights Clinic and the American Civil ...

Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass ...

Dr. Karmel says the Harford Civil Rights Project was created to highlight what happened over the past 60 years, the pivotal players, and how change was made.

That was the premise behind the Capitol Crawl, a now-iconic protest to demand the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act. The ADA was a landmark civil rights bill aimed at providing basic ...

The peaceful sit-in, which lasted more than five months, sparked a wave of similar protests across the South and became a pivotal moment in the civil rights movement. McNeil recently returned to ...

The movement was civil and voting rights for Black Americans, and the subject was Vivian. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called him the greatest preacher he had ever seen. President Barack Obama ...