Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public spaces in Mississippi’s capital Made Possible Through the Support of Kayla ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The value of life lies not in longevity, but in what people do to give it significance. Bernard LaFayette wrote that in his memoir as he reflected on the constant threat of death he and others faced ...

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 on Friday. He was 85. LaFayette ...