The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement The Bureau of Investigations was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, and renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 1935. J.

Later, she spoke from the sanctuary of the 16th Street Baptist Church, a monument to the early civil rights movement where four young black girls were killed in a bombing by white supremacists in ...

Three Colorado Springs police officers are facing a civil rights lawsuit alleging misconduct in the arrest of a Black veteran. Attorneys for 29-year-old Dalvin Gadson say he was beaten without ...

A June 1969 police raid of the New York bar erupted into a days-long rebellion that lit a fire under the fight for LGBTQ rights. ... helped spark the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement.

The Justice Department opened a civil rights investigation into Memphis city officials and the Memphis Police Department on Thursday, following allegations that its officers used excessive force ...