Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon. A new telling of the story of the 1964 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Never before seen case ...

Edgar Ray Killen, the former Klansman who was sentenced to a 60-year prison term in 2005 for arranging the murders of three young civil rights workers outside Philadelphia, Mississippi, in 1964 during ...

From Schwerner and Goodman to Good and Pretti, white people putting themselves in harm’s way has helped galvanize Americans for justice. Demonstrators in Greenville, Miss., in 1964 after the ...