Martin Luther King Jr. helped lead the Civil Rights Movement. Read about his “I Have a Dream” speech, quotes, holiday, kids, assassination, and more facts.

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Claudette Colvin’s bold stand comes into focus during Black History Month, highlighting young activists who helped shape the fight for civil rights.

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An op-ed on how Martin Luther King Jr.’s fight for equal homeownership changed one family’s life across generations.

The dramatic events of June 1964 in St. Augustine helped break a U.S. Senate filibuster and pass the Civil Rights Act.

The Insurrection Act is a law that authorizes the president to deploy the military inside the United States. Under the 1800s-era law, the president can call the U.S. armed forces and the National ...

"When you begin to politicize the judiciary, you lose the guardrails that the framers of the Constitution put in place in the first instance," Paul Kiesel said.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died. She was 86. Her ...

In 1955, Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus. She was not the first. Months earlier, a Black teenager, Claudette Colvin, was arrested for not offering her ...