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

Black lawmakers have to work with a system that has no interest in honoring our real past, one that forces terrible choices ...

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

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.

As part of a federal desegregation case dating back more than 60 years, the district is now implementing a “Majority to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...