The civil-rights movement succeeded because federal agents and protesters alike showed restraint. Officials in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Washington could learn a few lessons from the civil-rights ...
The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...
A judge in South Carolina has erased the records of seven Black men arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter. About 150 people packed the courtroom for the ceremony Friday. Two of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The 14th Louisiana Civil Rights Trail marker has been installed in the City of New Orleans by Louisiana's ...
The Rev. Ed King, a white minister who challenged Mississippi’s dangerously segregated society in the 1960s and was one of ...
A powerful photography exhibit documenting a pivotal decade in the civil rights movement is opening at the Branigan Cultural Center. "I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1970," ...