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.

They covered Dr. King differently in his support of Southern movements—Birmingham in 1963 and St. Augustine in 1964—than his support of movements against housing segregation ... it was not just ...

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.

On the evening of March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old mother of five children, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nat King Cole was at the height of his popularity in 1956, when the silky-smooth singer and pianist became the first Black person to host their own TV series in the United States. But it was also a ...