The Dayton branch of the NAACP held an event for Black History Month Thursday. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as ...

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During ...

One group, The Congress of Racial Equality, would tackle segregation head on with its bold series of freedom rides in 1961. We had these mixed groups of black and white activists were traveling ...

Occupying seats in defiance of racial segregation on buses and lunch ... on the idea of resuming what became known as Freedom Rides, bringing Black and White activists on bus journeys to the ...

A group of Minneapolis police officers and Black residents explored history museums and historic sites in Alabama detailing ...

Black History Month celebrates towering figures like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Rosa Parks— rightfully so, as ...

February is Black History Month, an appropriate time for celebrating the struggles, triumphs and contributions of this nation’s African American citizens. Born in February were President Abraham ...

Glen Echo Park hadn't been an amusement park since 1968, but it had transitioned into a cultural destination for families in ...

"After that, we took advantage of him as a Black ... segregation, which recent Supreme Court decisions had outlawed but nonetheless continued in the Jim Crow South. Person joined the Freedom ...

The Freedom Rides began on May 4, 1961, and continued throughout the year. They eventually included hundreds of young activists who targeted bus segregation, which recent Supreme Court decisions ...

First, I asked how, as a historian, she became interested in “segregation scholarships ... Presidential Medal of Freedom to Fred ... [+] Gray, one of the first Black members of the Alabama ...