In 1961, he and 12 other civil rights activists were nearly killed for trying to integrate interstate bus terminals across ...

When we think of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States, many iconic figures come to mind: Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Chris Matthews, who was a speechwriter for former President Jimmy Carter, and Jonathan Alter, author of “His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life,” join Andrea Mitchell to speak about the 39th president’s ...

A definitive history of the birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, and a call to preserve it ...

Young Jimmy Carter and his friends were walking across a pasture after a day’s farm labor during the Great Depression. As ...

A group of 21 House Democrats signed a letter urging the president to exonerate former civil rights leader Marcus Garvey, according to a statement sent by the lawmakers to ABC News on Monday.

The Rev. James Lawson, a leader of the Civil Rights Movement who trained scores of activists during his time in Nashville -- ...

Decades later, during the Civil Rights Movement, Carter urged his Plains congregation to allow integrated worship, but he and ...

Here’s how it works. Zambrano explains that Lively might have to wait a full year after filing a civil complaint. Still, he thinks that she's got a case for the economic damages related to ...

Ross has previously blamed Trump's 2016 election on backlash to the civil rights movement. "What we are witnessing is what happened after the success of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and ...

Professor Srimati Basu, chairwoman of the gender studies department at the University of Kentucky in the US, said: “The men’s rights movement has not had big systematic actions in the last 10 ...

In 2013, Minorities Rights Day was declared in India following the country’s endorsement of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious, and Linguistic ...