Joyce Cusack, now 82, participated in a 1960 lunch counter sit-in in DeLand, Florida, at the age of 17 to protest segregation ...

The parties reached a settlement in February 1959. The Harlem 9’s children would not enroll in the schools for which they were zoned. Nor would they be able to engage in “open choice” – the parents’ ...

SC State University marked 57 years since the Orangeburg Massacre as survivors and families remembered those killed and the ...

Feb. 8 marks 57 years since the Orangeburg Massacre of 1968, when South Carolina Highway Patrol officers opened fire on a ...

King employed nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience in his campaigns. He organized peaceful protests, boycotts, and marches to to racial injustice.

Rosa Parks was actively involved in civil rights work long before the famous bus incident. She joined the NAACP in 1943. McDonalds Black History Month - 360Wise ...

Although segregation in Las Vegas ended in 1960, UNLV Associate Professor Tyler Parry says that discrimination, racism and ...

It drew swift backlash from civil rights groups who said campus protests have mostly been ... than the students who protested Vietnam or segregation or apartheid in South Africa." ...

An hour before President Donald Trump was sworn in for a second term, over 100 Vermonters gathered outside Burlington City Hall in below freezing temperatures to protest the Florida businessman's ...

Image In 1960, Mr. Gaither helped lead a peaceful march of some 1,000 college students protesting segregation in Orangeburg, S.C. Hundreds were arrested and held in a cattle stockade, where they ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Five people were arrested Tuesday night during an anti-Trump protest in downtown Portland that began at Tom McCall Waterfront Park, authorities said. The demonstration ...

“Demand the university drop the suspensions, drop the charges,” CUAD wrote in its announcement of Tuesday’s protest. “There will be no school as usual as long as Columbia is participating in a ...