ATLANTA, GA, UNITED STATES, February 2, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The U.S. Civil Rights Trail is expanding in 2026, ...

Meet the people who helped desegregate Florida's pools and beaches in the 1950s at our free screening and discussion of "Take Me to the Water" on Thursday, Feb. 26.

Cyrus Greene Park in East Tampa is one of local baseball’s hallowed grounds,” Rodney Kite-Powell, a historian with the Tampa Bay History Center, said. Before Major League Baseball integrated in 1947, ...

Charlie’s Playhouse opened around 1958 under the ownership of East Austin businessman Ernest “Charlie” Gildon. Located at 1206 East 11th Street in the historically Black cultural district, the ...

In 1942, James G. Thompson, of Wichita, Kansas, addressed a letter to the editor of The Pittsburgh Courier with a simple question.

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national ...

A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson was an American political icon. But above all, he was a Southerner.

Norman C. Francis was one of the most influential New Orleanians of the past century. These five moments and memories help show his impact.

Mr. Jackson often spoke about Greenville, S.C., in his speeches, returning home several times to fight for change — and for a ...

A schoolgirl’s refusal in Montgomery became the legal backbone that dismantled Jim Crow on public transportation. On March 2, 1955, […] The post Claudette Colvin was arrested at 15 for defying bus ...