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

Dr. Martin Luther King ... in their protests. King arrived in May 1964 to rally with them. He was arrested on June 11 with civil rights leaders the Rev. Ralph Abernathy when they asked for service ...

James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was killed by state troopers.

A woman laid out in the street, unconscious. Troopers lined up, armed with batons. A telegram from Massachusetts reacting to the violence. As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the ...

She was the superintendent of the Sunday school at First Congregational Church of Atlanta; board chair of the Jean Young Institute for Youth Leadership in Atlanta; served on the board of the historic ...

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...

Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd ...

House Republicans unveiled a bill that has to be approved by Friday to avoid a government shutdown. And, what we know about ...

Leaders of the movement like Martin Luther King Jr., Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Ralph Abernathy met in the motel to rest and discuss strategy. The building was targeted in a 1963 bombing that ...