Special Report
Traveling Along the U.S. Civil Rights Trail
Take in some of the sites and landmarks across the American South that were pivotal to the Civil Rights Movement and the advancement of social justice
A White Historian Claimed That Black People 'Had No History.' This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise
Carter G. Woodson, the "father of Black history," founded the celebration now known as Black History Month in 1926. A prolific writer and activist, he viewed his efforts to educate the public as a "life-and-death struggle"
Lessons Worth Learning From the Moment Four Students Sat Down to Take a Stand
One of the great monuments to the Greensboro Sit-In is at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History
Home of Civil Rights Hero Medgar Evers Is Now a National Monument
Before his assassination in 1963, Evers led civil rights demonstrations and investigated racial violence in Mississippi
Interactive Map of Our Coverage of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail
She Protested School Segregation as a Teenager. Now She's Being Honored With a Statue at the U.S. Capitol
Lawmakers gathered in the Capitol for the unveiling of a bronze statue honoring teenage civil rights activist Barbara Rose Johns
The Gun Linked to Emmett Till's Murder Is Now on Display at a Museum in Mississippi
The weapon is thought to have belonged to J.W. Milam, one of the two men who kidnapped, tortured and killed the Black teenager for whistling at a white woman in a grocery store in 1955
The Youngest of the Little Rock Nine Speaks About Holding on to History
Carlotta Walls LeNier, whose school dress is in the Smithsonian, says much was accomplished and now we need to hold onto it
These Rare Photos of the Selma March Place You in the Thick of History
James Barker, a photographer from Alaska, shares his memories of documenting the famed event
The Strike That Brought MLK to Memphis
In his final days, Martin Luther King Jr. stood by striking sanitation workers. We returned to the city to see what has changed—and what hasn’t
