The civil rights era comes alive in these excellent, informative books for kids of all ages. From beautifully illustrated picture books to memoirs that depict the Jim Crow South to biographies of ...

The Chautauqua County District Attorney's Office has been appointed as a special prosecutor to review the convictions of two ...

Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges, who at the age of 6 desegregated a school in Louisiana and made history, spoke at Cal State ...

Images of Bridges being escorted by federal marshals into a New Orleans public school became a stark visual depiction of the ...

Bridges made history at 6-years-old when she walked into an all-White grade school in Louisiana, surrounded by federal marshals.

From launching community-driven schools to spearheading desegregation and beyond, Black women have been at the helm of innovating education. From ...

Claudette Colvin co-wrote the book, about bus boycotts and a case ... which inspired Parks and essentially launched the Civil Rights Movement, had gone largely unacknowledged.

Iowa Republicans are seeking to remove gender identity as a protected class in the state's civil rights act, ending 18 years of protection from discrimination for transgender Iowans. House ...

And on March 6, civil rights icon Ruby Bridges is set ... She is also the author of several books, including “Ruby Bridges: A Talk with My Teacher,” a children’s book published just this ...