Infographic: From the Civil Rights Era to the Present. Although our nation has made great progress since the civil rights era, the struggle for economic opportunity and equality in America continues.

A memo reviewed by CBS News said Trump appointees are considering closing the Community Relations Service, which was created as part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Biden issues pardon to late Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced civil rights movement. Congressional leaders had pushed for Biden to pardon Garvey, with supporters arguing that Garvey ...

Lectures examining the Civil Rights Movement from Brown v. Board of Education to the civil and human rights initiatives today. The American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968) refers to reform movements ...

The year 1963 was a landmark one for the civil rights movement – and it's the subject of Peniel Joseph's new book Freedom Season. In the book, the University of Texas at Austin professor argues ...

The civil-rights movement is remembered for its stirring rhetoric and sustaining faith, but it also had another trait that’s required for a social movement to succeed: discipline.

Most Americans support teaching a thorough history of the civil rights movement and appreciate the historical significance of the era. But few can name pivotal figures or moments apart from Martin ...

Back in the 1960s, the civil rights movement received the same critiques and was accused of similar divisiveness as today’s climate movement: activists were agitators, the movement was too ...

Selected by Paul Kix, the author, most recently, of ‘You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America.’ ...

Following the great legal victories of the movement—the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights of 1965—the leaders of the Big Five came together to support an ambitious ...

The Civil Rights Movement began the day Black people stepped foot on American soil. 9. Marching was an acceptable form of protest. Partly because of how our education system sugarcoats the past, ...

North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, the state’s first Black lieutenant governor and the GOP front-runner for the 2024 gubernatorial race, repeatedly lambasted the “so-called” 1960s Civil ...