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

Webb said her career has been defined not by personal ambition, but by a desire to create opportunities for others, ...

The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

Visitors and locals pass “The Embrace” memorial on Boston Common every day where a loving hug between Martin Luther King Jr.

1968 brought the assassination's of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in April ... So in the summer of 1968, when Martin Luther King's widow, Coretta Scott King, and their children needed ...

Iowa on Friday became the first state to strip transgender citizens of civil rights protections. Gov. Kim Reynolds signed into law a bill that removes gender identity as a protected class in the ...

Women listen during the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ...

Coretta Scott King is often remembered as a devoted wife and mother ... many other women played essential roles in the success of the civil rights movement. Take the most iconic moment of the civil ...

The play also highlights a significant tie between the Civil Rights Movement and a courtroom in St. Paul. Morris was a teacher in Little Rock, Ark., who represented a union of Black teachers who ...

“The whole civil rights thing was new to me ... justice leaders continued King’s mission for equality. On April 8, a few days after her husband’s murder, Coretta Scott King led a silent march through ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Protesters filled the Iowa state Capitol in Des Moines on Monday, Feb. 24, 2025 to denounce a bill that ...

Established by Congress, the EEOC was made to uphold civil rights laws against discrimination in the workplace based on various factors of identity, such as race, color, sex, religion, age ...