The last time was in 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the National Guard to protect Civil Rights marchers from ...

Before Saturday, the last time a president sent Guard troops in to deal with civil unrest without cooperation from a state’s ...

SELMA, Ala. – JoAnn and James Pittman drove from Atlanta to Selma – a 5-hour trip – to pay their respects to a man they knew both as a civil rights hero and a kind human being who wrote ...

Under blue skies and in sweltering heat, a crowd of hundreds marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma on Sunday afternoon to honor the men and women who walked that same path 57 years ...

Many strong locals advocated and fought for racial equality in Tallahassee, Florida’s capital city, and a battle ground in the national civil rights movement. From nurses to shop owners ...

The images of that day in 1965 were quickly seared into the American consciousness: helmeted Alabama state troopers and mounted sheriff's possemen beating peaceful civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

From its golden sun to its turquoise surf, Hawaii can always take your breath away. But it's the colorful leis that may dazzle the most. The island's exquisite array of flowers, valued for their ...

He will be held in the same contempt that most of us now hold George Wallace and Strom Thurmond. Our freedom to be who we are is a fundamental civil right. Trans rights are civil rights.

A water fountain. A lunch counter. A seat on a public bus. Access to these things might sound simple, but the Civil Rights Movement thrust them deeply and permanently into our national fabric ...

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