CORE experimented with the use of non-violent protest as a means of gaining publicity for increased civil rights. In 1943, they used this tactic when staging their first ‘sit-in’ in a Chicago ...

The civil rights lawyer called Trump’s actions an “assault on core principles of our democracy” and said Black and brown communities “must reclaim the meaning of the 14th Amendment,” which is at the ...

Meet the powerful voices leading Civil Rights Movement 2.0, from attorneys to community organizers, who are tackling systemic racism.

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter.