Trevecca Nazarene University takes students on annual bus tours through Nashville's Civil Rights landmarks, bringing history to life beyond textbooks.

Jesse Jackson's successful library sit-in at a Greenville, South Carolina library influenced Nashville's own lunch counter protests.

The size of the Poor People's March on Washington is astonishing. View Entire Post › ...

Emily Yellin discusses her collaborative memoir with the late James Lawson, ‘the architect of the nonviolent movement in America’ ...

SOUTH HADLEY — Civil rights activist Judy Richardson moved with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in ways she said might have not been possible in other organizations during the ...

PRODIGY OF PROTEST,' exploring the early activism of the civil rights leader. The production aims to highlight pivotal ...

Eden Prairie students honored at City Council for art and essays inspired by Black civil rights leaders during Words in Action contest.

Before accepting the Hooks National Book Award at the University of Memphis on Feb. 13, journalist and author Joy-Ann Reid reflected on why she chose to tell the story of Medgar and Myrlie Evers not ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who forged strong ties to Nashville through his longtime advocacy work, has ...

These historic figures knew that no one person was coming to save them. If they wanted justice, they would have to organize.

The Civil Right Division of the Department of Justice was created in 1957 to act as the federal government’s independent investigative and enforcement mechanism for civil rights law in the United ...

Carter G. Woodson established Negro History Week in 1926 — choosing the second week of February to coincide with Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass’ birthdays — as a way to honor the often ...