Dick Gregory was a pioneer in social satire, using his comedy to address racial tensions in the US during the 1950s and 1960s ...

Before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, scholars say Black-owned restaurants provided strategic cover for revolutionary activity.

Trying to stake out a sliver of space for the “moderate evangelical,” the magazine sometimes left readers confused and ...

For 40 years, Martin Luther King Day has been a federal holiday. But with his legacy and landmarks of the civil rights era no longer set in stone, we thought it might be a good time to look back at ...

The 1965 March on Washington was a galvanizing moment for the American civil-rights movement of the ‘60s, but in terms of media coverage of American race relations of that era, it happened in the ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

Humanities Nebraska will present an exclusive virtual Chautauqua July 30-31 with themes relating the 1950s to today as part of prelude activities for “The Fifties in Focus” Nebraska Chautauqua that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In mainstream accounts of the Civil Rights ...

The Civil Rights Movement was a progressive yet devastating part of our nation's history. To commemorate some of the major ...