Many African-American women took charge of the movement at the grass-roots level, while some worked alongside Martin Luther King, A. Philip Randolph and other civil rights icons.

The New Orleans City Council has rejected plans to turn a historic home connected with the life of civil rights movement leader Oretha Castle Haley into a museum.

Many of the most prominent figures of the civil rights movement drew their motivation to fight for freedom and equality from their religious faith. Powered by the belief that all men and women are ...

It was a time when there was a link between the Civil Rights Movement, Black churches and Mahatma Gandhi’s philosophy of satyagraha or “the seizing on to the truth,” Sarbacker said ...

Leroy Moton, right, who was riding in the car with activist Viola Liuzzo when she was shot to death, stands in front of the courthouse in Hayneville, Ala., on May 4, 1965, during the trial of the ...

When the legendary Nikki Giovanni is asked what it means to be a Civil Rights leader and literary legend, she doesn't give the answer most are used to hearing. Instead, she keeps it simple. “I'm ...