While the Voting Rights Act was undoubtedly a singular achievement, it represented the culmination of a long struggle.

Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young settled into the role of doing the "dirty work" right away when he began working for the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the civil rights movement — answering mail,

Civil rights activist Robert Moses has died at the age of 86. Moses endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math. Moses worked to ...

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the South. McNeil was a key figure in the civil rights ...