Tennessee has long been a battleground for courageous, strategic, and non-violent direct action – from the Clinton 12 to the ...

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

The $27 million Dream Center building is almost done, and a march will take place on the 57th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

As two recent books show, free speech protections were forged a century ago by people who fought for the rights of activists.

Too many students graduate college without understanding the fundamental ideas that shape our republic: liberty, justice, and ...

Over nearly six decades, this fantastically inventive artist experimented with paint, turning it into a sculptural medium.

In what some historians consider one of the best political speeches of the 20th century, former President Lyndon B. Johnson, ...

Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a ...

Guthrie, the president of the Long Island Traditional Music Association, is probably best-known as the dance caller at Old ...

Martin Luther King Jr. and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led sit-ins and other acts designed to provoke arrest, making the injustice of those laws visible to the public. The civil ...