Category : Civil Rights

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland might seem like an unlikely civil rights hero: a white teenage girl with a conservative upbringing in Arlington, Virginia, during the Jim Crow era...

A small group of students and faculty from Tougaloo College, a private and historically black institution in Jackson, drove downtown and sat at the lunch...

The Freedom Rides were a series of civil rights protests that took place in the United States during the 1960s. The rides were organized to...

Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941, in Chicago, Illinois, to Mamie Carthan Till and Louis Till. Growing up on the South Side...

In Birmingham, Alabama, in the spring of 1963, King’s campaign to end segregation at lunch counters and in hiring practices drew nationwide attention when police...

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The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), founded in 1942, became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American civil rights...

When the Pythian Building at 234 Loyola Avenue was completed in 1909, the structure towered over the surrounding neighborhood. But it was what the Pythian...