Black women fed, protected and housed the activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting ...

Murray State University’s Cinema International program is planning to screen the award-winning 2014 docudrama that depicts ...

February 18, 1965 – During a march in Marion, state troopers attack the demonstrators. State trooper James Bonard Fowler shoots and kills Jimmie Lee Jackson. Fowler was charged with murder in 2007 and ...

Sixty years ago, the first programs of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” were signed into law. They were part of a massive set of legislation that was designed to eliminate poverty and racial ...

On June 18, 1964, a group of Black and white protesters fighting for integration went swimming in the whites-only pool at the ...

March 9, 1965 – President Lyndon Johnson speaks out against the violence ... punishing any person involved in a demonstration for civil rights. March 17, 1965 – Federal District Court Judge ...

In honor of all the sacrifices made on behalf of civil rights foot soldiers 60 years ago, the following 60 events are ...

One of the most prominent faces in US politics, RFK Jr. is related to several famous members of the Kennedy family tree.