Two dozen Burke High School students sat down at a lunch counter inside the Kress building on King Street, determined to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The kickoff event for Jacksonville joining the U.S. Civil Rights Trail featured a marker standing a few feet from the pulpit where ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A civil rights marker honoring the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in was unveiled Thursday in Statesville. The Statesville ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — The Greensboro sit-ins were a pivotal moment for non-violent civil rights protests in the early 1960s. This movement spread throughout the country, operating on a simple concept: ...

During Black History Month, KOCO is honoring those who made a difference in Oklahoma, and there is perhaps no bigger name in the state's history than "Luper." On Tuesday, there was a deeply personal ...

Bernard LaFayette, a key early civil rights organizer who helped integrate lunch counters and public spaces in Nashville and across the South during the 1960s, died March 5. He was 85. LaFayette once ...

Lafayette was a key figure in the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and the Selma voting rights movement. He worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and was appointed national coordinator of the ...

NAGASAKI--Atomic bomb survivors rallied at the Peace Park here on June 9 for the 500th protest sit-in they have continued ...

“Nonviolent: A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love,” by the late Rev. James Lawson Jr. and Memphis journalist Emily Yellin releases Feb. 17, nearly two years after Lawson's death. Yellin shares ...

Jacksonville has officially joined the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, with dozens of historical markers planned for the city. The markers will highlight significant locations from the Civil Rights Movement, ...