I didn’t buy this house to sell for a profit. I wanted to make this my home,” said Ethel R. Lawrence, who fended off ...

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

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

On March 16, 1802, the U.S. Congress authorized the establishment of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.

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 ...

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

We cannot and must not retreat to “fortress America” and with the illusion that we are safe between two oceans, nor can we ...

It’s interesting to note that Ms. Eloise was born two years before Negro History Week was created by Carter G. Woodson and ...

Second-grade students at Anderson Elementary School performed in an annual Black history event that included songs, dance and poetry. The program Friday was named “Celebrating a Rich History,” with ...