Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a difference for all Memphians.

Through their collective achievements, these extraordinary women created lasting foundations for social justice, equality, ...

A high-impact exhibition on the civil rights activist—who orchestrated the 1963 March on Washington—opens at the National ...

Led by the Reverend Joseph Ellwanger of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, the group made phone calls and sent delegations to other ...

This month marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery march, a pivotal moment in the fight for voting rights. The author, inspired by the civil rights movement, volunteered in ...

This Library of Congress photograph shows participants of the 1965 civil rights march following the ... Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) that when we received the telegram from ...

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case ... which inspired Parks and essentially launched the Civil Rights Movement, had gone largely unacknowledged.

Whether you're looking to read the classics, sci-fi or nonfiction, there are many female authors to pick from.

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Local library patrons, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of South ... violated library patrons’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. "Books are one of our ...