Protester Jessica Plichta was arrested for failure to obey a lawful order from police, according to Grand Rapids news station ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The site of a crucial moment in Kalamazoo’s Civil Rights Movement history will make way for a new senior center this fall. In the 1960s, Van Avery Drug Store sat near the ...

According to one of his biographers, Bob Dylan could have been sued for his iconic protest song, "The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll".

City Council expected to sign off on a pact over allegations police, officials violated the constitutional rights of ...

The Metropolitan Police’s recent decision to ban a United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) protest in Tower Hamlets offers a striking illustration of how the United Kingdom and United States take ...

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the ...

Thousands of people protested in downtown Houston on Saturday afternoon as part of the nationwide “No Kings” protests taking place across the United States. Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily ...

Frank Alexander hadn't thought of the cardboard box stashed away in his closet in almost 50 years. The simple gray container holds dozens of records from his time in college. He's a Tar Heel, class of ...

This was one of the civil rights movement's most popular songs, an unofficial anthem so pervasive that President Lyndon B. Johnson slipped the title phrase into a speech to Congress in March of 1965 ...

Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction: Voting Rights and Protest; 1. Black Voters and the Federal Voting Rights Enforcement Effort ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...