White supremacists killed five people in a 1979 shootout in North Carolina. Mr. Johnson later led a commission that ...

Discover the significant role of A. Philip Randolph and the Pullman porters in fighting economic discrimination. Learn about their impact on the labor movement and civil rights.

American Dreamer,” my biography of the 20th-century radical leader and activist, one of my colleagues cautioned me not to ...

Pullman porters did more than carry bags, they paved the way for higher education opportunities, the professional working ...

One hundred years ago, Chicago's Pullman porters who worked on the historic railway here helped form the first all-Black labor union in the U.S. In a FOX 32 special report, we take a look at how this ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

The lead song of the Civil Rights Movement soundtrack, “We Shall Overcome,” was adapted from the hymn “I’ll Overcome Some Day,” written in 1901 by Rev. Charles Albert Tindley of Philadelphia, who, ...

These populist policies are right at home in progressive circles, yet they are associated with the eclectic Cabinet nominees ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, as the United States grappled with Reconstruction, Black women — both formerly ...

He was a Greensboro community leader and was also known as a civil rights ... In his pursuit of equality, he played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement. He led a 1979 labor and civil rights ...