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

Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War.

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 ...

AMERICAN PUBLIC memory of the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has long been fixed on the struggle to dismantle Jim Crow in the South. Most accounts centre on the national efforts of ...