DECATUR, Ga. (WALB) - On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department store lunch counter. King’s attendance at that protest ...
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) — The site of a crucial moment in Kalamazoo’s Civil Rights Movement history will make way for a new senior center this fall. In the 1960s, Van Avery Drug Store sat near the ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit-in ...
This was one of the civil rights movement's most popular songs, an unofficial anthem so pervasive that President Lyndon B. Johnson slipped the title phrase into a speech to Congress in March of 1965 ...
The Justice Department is weighing conspiracy and civil rights charges after violent protests erupted Monday at the University of California, Berkeley, during a Turning Point USA event, as federal ...
False story about fire hoses running dry during 1963 Birmingham Civil Rights protests spreads online
A claim making the rounds online in November 2025 purported that fire hoses mysteriously turned off or ran dry during the high-profile Civil Rights Movement protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in May ...
The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...
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