The renovation project will restore the SCLC offices to their historic character, with National Park Service exhibits and educational signage. As part of the restoration and conservation of the lodge, ...

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

At the Rapides Parish Coliseum on November 22, 1966, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood before educators at the 65th session of the Louisiana Education Association, delivering a speech titled “Remaining ...

Young was Georgia’s first Black congressional representative in more than a century; former United Nations Ambassador; 53rd ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

Volunteers from SCOPE, a program that utilized college kids to lead voter registration drives in 1965, gathered for Bloody ...

This was one of the great lessons learned by Martin Luther King Jr. and others in the Civil Rights Movement. There was little that was spontaneous about their movement, and that was a good thing.

The National Trust for Historic Preservation’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $8.5 million in ...

On the 60th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s voting rights speech, we are reminded how government can address concerns with ...