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

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

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

Civil rights leaders in Virginia on Wednesday denounced a political campaign opposing the state’s April 21 redistricting ...

Discover the stories of four extraordinary women who shaped the course of the civil rights movement. Discover the powerful stories of Fannie Lou Hamer, Angela Davis, Dolores Huerta and Yuri Kochiyama ...

Historian Vicki Crawford was one of the first scholars to focus on women’s roles in the civil rights movement. Her 1993 book Trailblazers and Torchbearers dives into the stories of female leaders ...

America has a serious problem, as evidenced by multiple school shootings and a political assassination all within the span of two weeks. What’s less obvious is that the lessons of history give us the ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - A traveling exhibit honoring civil rights leader Lonnie C. King Jr. opened at the Northwest Library in Albany this week, bringing national history back to its Southwest Georgia ...

A towering figure in the American Civil Rights Movement is being remembered not just for the history he helped shape — but ...

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

Ernest McMillan, a Dallas-born civil rights activist during the 1960s and later mentor to generations of community leaders, ...

Nashville's significant role in the Civil Rights Movement is often overlooked due to its strong association with country music. The city was a training ground for nonviolent protest and educated key ...