Historians describe the debate over extending civil rights to former slaves that divided the country after the Civil War.

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Harvard professor Brandon M. Terry offers a new way of thinking about what the leaders of that period achieved, what they lost, and why we should still have hope. We all know the mainstream history of ...

While the story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s is well known by all Americans, the decades preceding it ...

AMERICAN PUBLIC memory of the civil-rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s has long been fixed on the struggle to dismantle Jim Crow in the South. Most accounts centre on the national efforts of ...

Huntsville has lost a quiet soldier of the Civil Rights movement. Martha Hereford died on September 15.