Find part 2 of our conversation with Peniel Joseph here. The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young Black girls, ...

Months before four little girls were killed in a Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that helped turn the tide of the civil rights movement in 1963, their friends and classmates bravely took to the ...

Sixty years ago, a cultural revolution was taking place in Birmingham. On April 3, 1963, a group of activists was arrested for attempting to eat at segregated lunch counters. The Rev. Dr. Martin ...

A claim making the rounds online in November 2025 purported that fire hoses mysteriously turned off or ran dry during the high-profile Civil Rights Movement protests in Birmingham, Alabama, in May ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — As thousands of marchers made their way to the nation’s capital in August 1963 for what was officially billed as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Maria Varela ...

Sixty years ago this week, in a pivotal year during the Civil Rights Movement, two moments helped to advance the fight against segregation and mistreatment of Black Americans. On June 11, 1963, with ...

In 2023, the city of Birmingham will devote the year to commemorating the 60th anniversary of the 1963 Birmingham civil rights movement. The year of tribute will be a collaboration with area churches, ...

Visitors to downtown Fayetteville can now walk in the footsteps of those who fought for civil rights in 1963 thanks to a new historical marker on Green Street. Sixty years ago, students at ...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi on Tuesday unveiled a historical marker commemorating the sit-in exactly 50 years earlier at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Jackson, a pivotal event in ...

Thursday, the community celebrated 33 years of the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and honored former US Attorney General ...

The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young Black girls, fire hoses and dogs were used against peaceful protesters, ...