Montgomery, Ala., helped shape America — from the cradle of the Confederacy to the birthplace of the civil rights movement to the city's draw today as the place to reflect on the legacy of slavery.

Historian Professor Josh Clark Davis discusses the organized resistance of civil rights activists against police violence and ...

Civil rights leaders in Virginia on Wednesday denounced a political campaign opposing the state’s April 21 redistricting ...

A Huntsville tradition rooted in the Civil Rights Movement returned this Easter Sunday, as a local hospitality group revived ...

As America turns 250 years old, CBS News Chicago is exploring Chicago's influence on the nation, including during the Great ...

Millions of people took to the streets last weekend in solidarity against President Donald Trump. Protest signs and public speeches decried his administration’s attacks on immigrants, LGBTQ people and ...

Forty family members and friends gathered at Beaverdale Memorial Park Friday to lay to rest the cremains of Winston Henry Lockett -- a Hillhouse High School graduate, labor organizer, and civil rights ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

Claudette Colvin's arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat led to the Supreme Court case that ended bus segregation, yet ...

Introduction: the struggle over memory / Leigh Raiford, Renee C. Romano -- Interpreting the Civil Rights movement: contradiction, confirmation, and the cultural landscape / Owen J. Dwyer -- The ...