"Having Senator Booker use his body as Black people have done in this country to fight for the advancement of other people, ...

Ted Tunnell: The second Reconstruction is what historians call the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, the time in which finally black people are truly emancipated. They're only half ...

In A Red Record, civil rights pioneer Ida B ... their own people and identity.” In the post-Reconstruction years, the effort to suppress the Black vote (or what some termed “Africanization ...

Through their collective achievements, these extraordinary women created lasting foundations for social justice, equality, ...

Mississippi’s first Black lawmaker of the 20th century died Tuesday. Robert G. Clark's son and successor, state Rep.

Jim Crow laws denied Black people rights by enforcing segregation and ... The years immediately after the war were known as the Reconstruction era. The Government changed the Constitution, so ...

A man who fought for justice, public education and civil rights in post-Civil ... honoring John Robinson, a Black politician, businessman and Reconstruction-era leader who helped shape Virginia ...