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When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

The lawyers formally incorporated the SPLC in 1971, and civil rights activist Julian Bond was named the first president. Dees ...

Marchers carry signs during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom Aug. 28, 1963. During the march, the Rev. Dr. Martin ...

President Trump revoked a 1965 rule that prohibited federal contractors from discriminating against employees or job ...

How did Martin Luther King's message get across to America? Partly through pop culture. Music, movies, TV helped spread his ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to be released on Jan. 14. As an author and journalist ...

As part of Trump's onslaught on longstanding federal policies, his action affecting government contracting cancels an order signed by LBJ that was integral to the civil rights movement of the 1960s ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...