The Associated Press

In the birthplace of Civil Rights Movement, groups rally to defend Black political representation

Thousands of people rallied Saturday in the city considered the crucible of the modern Civil Rights Movement to push back against ...
HUB

In 'Before the Movement,' historian Dylan C. Penningroth finds lost legacies

For many, the story of the Civil Rights Movement begins somewhere in the 1950s, when cases like Brown v. Board of Education reached the Supreme Court docket and forever changed the landscape for ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Where the Movement Lives: Eight Tennessee Landmarks on the U.S. Civil Rights Trail

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights ...
USA Today

'We will not let our history be erased:' Civil Rights vets share lessons with educators

WASHINGTON ‒ As some educators pull back from teaching Black history, college professor Kijua Sanders-McMurtry is taking a different path. This summer, during a conference break, she typed furiously ...
The Washington Post

Civil rights leaders see another turning point one year into Trump’s term

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...