Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

A White 706 bus that served the needs of the National Park Service back in the 1930s is going under the hammer at the end of the week ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and ...

Connection weaved through the birthplace of rock ‘n’ roll and into the lives of several southern Illinoisans as a local ...

Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was 77 when she visited Yakima in late February 1990. The civil rights legend had shared her story ...

There are many tenacious individuals in Elaine Weiss' "Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights ...

The building housing the Detroit field office for immigrant enforcement was listed among properties that could be sold by the ...

We all know our share of powerful women. From mothers and grandmothers to teachers and leaders, the women in our lives shape ...

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, with ...

Doug Howard, public affairs officer for the United States Attorney’s Office in Montgomery said, “normal operations are ...

The administration also said it was seeking to offload federal buildings bearing the names of civil rights icons Martin ...