On April 16, 1963, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote "Letter from Birmingham Jail" while imprisoned in Alabama for ...

The Trump administration has backed out of a historic settlement with Alabama over straight piping, a harmful method of sewage disposal in low-income areas.

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

AL. Over 34 years, the federal lawsuit took on a life of its own as the state’s largest district worked to dismantle segregation and achieve unitary status. Its resolution had lasting impacts ...

OCR did not say in the release which scholarships are classified as race-based or provide any examples of race-based segregation by the University of Alabama. A list of undergraduate scholarships ...

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) changed a Friday press release on Monday morning to say that the University of Alabama at Birmingham is under investigation by ...

segregation forever -- that's the line people are gonna remember,' he said." "And Wallace picked it up," says Alabama journalist Bob Ingram, "and looked at it and said, "I like that line.

Boarding a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, "I was pretty scared," he ... rather than breaking segregation laws. Freedom Riders responded with a strategy they called "jail, no bail"—a deliberate ...

A segregation-era sign that hung over a water fountain in Montgomery, Alabama. When I was 11, I was taken on a trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi, for a family reunion. My mother was born there in ...

many problems will arise in the matter of segregation and civil rights, as a result of judicial decisions. Having served as judge of the third judicial circuit of Alabama, I feel, my friends ...