The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis highlights Bayard Rustin's pivotal role in the civil rights movement with a new ...

Personnel records for the sheriff’s officer currently stripped of his authority in the traffic stop viral video arrest show ...

In late February, 21 WSU architecture students and two history students in their last semester visited east Pasco from Pullman as part of a graduate student class, “Issues in Architecture.” ...

In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: the Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict,” authors Maria J. Stephan and Erica Chenowith conclude that from 1900 to 2017, large nonviolent ...

2. Rosa Parks Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus. Born ...

In his book “ Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War,” Matthew J. Calvin noted that to quell the impetus for resistance, plantation owners shifted July 4 to a carnival ...

By blurring the boundaries of history, literature and journalism, she pioneered the new, unique genre of “oral novels,” receiving the Nobel Prize in literature in 2015.

Civil Resistance vs. Pluralism In Defense of Noisy, Disruptive Movements Efforts to pursue common ground with MAGA members aim to muzzle advocates for our most vulnerable. Yet history is filled with ...

The Trump administration has declassified over 240,000 pages of FBI records detailing surveillance on Martin Luther King Jr.

Part 2 of theGrio’s Black History Month series explores the myths, misunderstandings & mischaracterizations of the struggle for civil rights.

Parks, who was already involved in efforts to end segregation, became a pioneer for Civil Rights when she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama city bus in 1955. The act of ...