The civil-rights activist Septima Clark once said she regretted that “young people prefer demonstrations over genuine ...

Gray recalled the last time he spoke to longtime friend U.S. Rep. John Lewis about a week before Lewis' death. Lewis was ...

The Rosa Parks Committee raised $15,000 to bring her ... Parks first became involved with the NAACP in the 1940s and eventually participated in several high-profile civil rights campaigns.

I didn’t buy this house to sell for a profit. I wanted to make this my home,” said Ethel R. Lawrence, who fended off ...

That “evolving external landscape” is President Trump’s return to the White House — and his pledge to eradicate anything he ...

It was very difficult to keep going when all our efforts seemed in vain,” Rosa Parks described her work in the 1940s and early ’50s. Getting her political start with the Scottsboro Boys case in the ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus, the stage had been set decades before by activists of the National ...

Hazel Dukes, former president of the NAACP and longtime president of the civil rights organization’s New York chapter, has died. She was 92. She died on March 1 at her home in New York City ...

For decades, she led the NAACP New York State Conference and ... Her neighbor was none other than Rosa Parks, Newsday has reported. She moved to Roslyn in her early 20s. As a young woman ...