Initially scornful of King and his strategies, Malcolm later began to recognize the worth of — and even began tentative ...

This documentary examines how Cold War anti-communism became intertwined with the FBI’s surveillance of the American Civil Rights Movement. Under J. Edgar Hoover, the Bureau investigated Martin Luther ...

Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon. A new telling of the story of the 1964 ...

Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The statue of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at his memorial site on the edge of the Tidal Basin, which was ...

Other peoples have risen. Other peoples have risen up to defend their rights, their dignity, and their democracies. In the past 50 years, they’ve done it in Poland, South Africa, Lebanon, South Korea, ...

Ernest Withers took some of the most iconic photographs of the American civil rights movement. He was in the room, on the march, at the funeral. He photographed Martin Luther King Jr. so many times ...

From the balcony of the Lorraine Motel to a small-town high school that changed American law, Tennessee’s Civil Rights landmarks trace the courage, sacrifice, and cultural power that reshaped a nation ...

Although largely forgotten, a little-known Tennessee school once powerfully influenced the U.S. Civil Rights movement and its leaders, while preserving Southern Appalachian culture. Its inspiring ...