Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

Despite the humor and subversion, Lamar sees the lawsuit as part of a long line of civil rights activism that has relied on the courts, from Black women who successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan to ...

SELMA — Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on March 7, 1965. The marchers were protesting ...

FILE - An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma ...

At the meeting, Chaplain Thompson was the first to speak, arguing that traveling to Selma, where the voting rights march was due to begin on Sunday, March 21, 1965, would underscore the school’s ...

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his demonstrators stream over an Alabama River bridge at the city limits of Selma, Ala., ...

was 14 years old in 1965 when civil rights activists were assaulted by Alabama state troopers and police as they attempted to march from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery in an effort to ...

“We’re here to remind people that there are human and civil rights that we are ... known as “The Annual Pilgrimage to Selma,” and features a festival of arts and music ahead of the March to Restore ...

"We're here to remind people that there are human and civil rights ... Pilgrimage to Selma," and features a festival of arts and music ahead of the March to Restore Voting Rights across the ...