Two notable Freedmen Conventions took place in North Carolina in 1865 and 1866, where scores of black men gathered at the ...

Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, recalls the momentous sit-in that ignited a nationwide civil rights movement as he ...

The push for universal public education across the United States began in the midst of the Civil War — on the Union-occupied ...

The Los Angeles-based athleisure brand is donating proceeds from the collection to Williams’s museum. Cecil Williams in front of a museum display for his famous photograph in Orangeburg, South ...

The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are taught in the state’s K-12 schools. South Carolina Budget Proviso 1. ...

“because I think it ultimately was one of the signature protests of the entire civil rights movement.” Thomas Walter Gaither was born in Great Falls, South Carolina, on Nov. 12, 1938. His ...

The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to the civil rights historian.

Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the ...

On the last day of January, the day before Black History Month was set to begin, newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete ...

Black History Month is an annual observance centered on celebrating the history, heritage, cultural influence and social ...

“This monument, today, here on a main road for everyone to read, tells a broader story of civil rights, a movement, not just black and white," said Edwin Breeden, South Carolina Historical ...