As a teen raised in the Rust Belt in the 1960s, Alan Cashaw wasn’t blind to the fact that racism existed. But he also knew freedom in. “There was never a question over whether I could vote when I ...

He led more than 600 peaceful protestors across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma to march for voting rights. The group was attacked by Alabama State Troopers in what would be known as "Bloody Sunday.

The Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was the scene of a major civil rights confrontation in March, 1965, in which ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

I took a tour group to Alabama in 2015 to trace the American Civil Rights Trail, running in a triangle from Birmingham to Montgomery to Selma and back to Birmingham.

Kansas seldom promotes itself as a destination for Black history enthusiasts, and we’re leaving lots of potential tourist ...

The Black students were joined by white, mostly Jewish neighbors, the first interracial civil rights protest in the country.

Instead of signaling a turning of the corner in pursuit of a more perfect union, the elevation of a Black man into the White ...

An iconic civil rights site in Selma, Alabama, closed in 1983 and fallen into disrepair in recent years, was the subject of a fall semester Interior Architecture (ARIA) studio led by Program Chair and ...

As a Catholic Sister of St. Joseph of Rochester and a registered nurse, Sr. Lum was “privileged and forever influenced” by her work at the Sisters of St. Joseph Good Samaritan Hospital in Selma from ...

They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...

It blended the Republican saying with a 'Bloody Sunday' photo and was funded by Museum of Fine Arts. It has since been ...