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Travis Jackson was nine years old in 1943 when Hillburn families of color launched a boycott of segregated schools.The boycott of the families was ultimately successful. Black and Indian children in the small village on the edge of the…

With signs with pictures of the murdered civil rights activists James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner from Mississippi, protesters gather outside the US Supreme Court on February 27, 2013 in Washington, DC.…

Comment from Peniel E. JosephThe man best known for popularizing the term “black power” always replied with the words “Ready for Revolution”.Stokely Carmichael answered the phone in this manner to recognize his role in the…

June 28, 2021 - Declaration by civil rights activists / organizations:We appreciate the efforts of the lawmakers leading the negotiation of the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act. We were encouraged to see that the US House of…

Law360 (Jun 28, 2021, 7:51 p.m. EDT) - The Eleventh Circuit has declined to reanimate a lawsuit by a former Broward County Sheriff's Office who said she was discriminated against for treating her son with asthma had to. Judgment…

TUCSON, Arizona (KOLD News 13) - A Tucson veteran is fined after a company refuses to serve him and his service animal, according to the Arizona Attorney General.AG Mark Brnovich announced that his office had resolved the Arizonans with…

Unprecedented case files, photos and other records documenting the investigation into the infamous murders of three civil rights activists in Mississippi are now available to the public for the first time 57 years after their…

Case files, photos, and other records documenting the 1964 killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are now available, according to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.…

Friday June 25th “DISDance, Pride Edition - Still We Dance” will be at 6:30 pm. Join the DC Public Library and show your pride by dancing with the library's Freegal music collections. Post a video or photo of you and your crew dancing or…

Lee Sentell says the idea for "The Official United States Civil Rights Trail" arose out of a conversation he had with the daughter of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Bernice, led. "She said people don't know the story," said Sentell. “If…