ATLANTA, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Thursday marked the 45th anniversary of the Rev. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech, which galvanized the civil rights movement.
ATLANTA, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Civil rights leader, the Rev. James Orange, whose imprisonment in 1965 sparked Alabama's "Bloody Sunday" protest, has died in Atlanta at age 65.
MIRAMAR, Fla., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Bacardi Jackson, whose father worked closely with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said the rhetoric in the Democratic presidential race is unfortunate.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton says the U.S. government is not adequately investigating hate crimes.
WASHINGTON, June 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. Justice Department said a federal jury in southern Mississippi has found a former Ku Klux Klan member guilty in the 1964 slayings of two black men.
WASHINGTON, June 13 (UPI) -- U.S. House of Representatives and Senate committees are considering legislation this week aimed at solving decades-old civil rights crimes.
LAFAYETTE, Colo., May 27 (UPI) -- William E. Peters Jr., a noted journalist who covered the U.S. civil rights movement, has died in Lafayette, Colo., at age 85.
SELMA, Ala., March 5 (UPI) -- U.S. presidential hopefuls Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama marked Bloody Sunday in Selma, Ala., recalling its role in the civil rights movement.
ATLANTA, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Dore E. McDonald, who worked alongside Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as his secretary, died this weekend in Atlanta from cancer at the age of 81. The former confidante and secretary of the iconic civil rights leader, McDonald maintained her contact with
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., Dec. 4 (UPI) -- The St. Louis Cardinals will face the Cleveland Indians in the first-ever Civil Rights Game, Major League Baseball announced at its Winter Meetings Monday.
DETROIT, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- The family of civil rights movement heroine Rosa Parks and a longtime friend are fighting over her estate in a Michigan court.
ATLANTA, July 16 (UPI) -- The Rev. Joseph E. Boone, a key civil rights organizer who marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr., has died in his Atlanta home at 83.
ATLANTA, Dec. 24 (UPI) -- Atlanta officials are thinking about adding a museum on the civil rights movement to its tourist mix.
DETROIT, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Civil rights icon Rosa Parks died Monday night in Detroit at age 92.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 (UPI) -- A civil rights coalition urged the Senate Friday to exempt civil rights and labor disputes from pending legislation to curtail class action suits. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights released a letter signed by 67 civil rights and labor groups askin
