Jerry Mitchell, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and award-winning reporter whose work helped jail several white supremacists for ...

This month marks the 61st anniversary of a moment in the Civil Rights Movement that could have united freedom fighters across races. Instead, history followed a disappointing and familiar pattern. The ...

As America turns 250 years old, CBS News Chicago is exploring Chicago's influence on the nation, including during the Great ...

The Cesar Chavez allegations allow us to reflect on past movements and look to build safe places for women while advocating.

Claudette Colvin's arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat led to the Supreme Court case that ended bus segregation, yet ...

César Chávez is woven throughout California’s social studies curriculum — as a labor leader, civil rights hero and practitioner of nonviolent protest. That’s about to change. State education officials ...

Jacksonville has officially joined the U.S. Civil Rights Trail, with dozens of historical markers planned for the city. The markers will highlight significant locations from the Civil Rights Movement, ...

Montgomery, Ala., helped shape America — from the cradle of the Confederacy to the birthplace of the civil rights movement to the city's draw today as the place to reflect on the legacy of slavery.

People in wheelchairs surrounded and barricaded two city buses over the course of two days, demanding wheelchair lifts and ...

The unionist response to the civil rights movement changed all our lives ...

Known as the Tougaloo Nine, the demonstrators staged a sit-in that helped the NAACP push for the desegregation of public spaces in Mississippi's capital Smart News Before his assassination in 1963, ...

The SBOE is expected to do a first reading, hear testimony on and discuss the new social studies standards on Tuesday.