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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What is Alabama famous for? Southern hospitality, civil rights history, peanuts and pecan pie are things to experience 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 ...

On April 17, a student newspaper at Williams College endorsed “affinity housing” for black students and other minorities — which is to say, it endorsed segregation. The students claim ...

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 ...