PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - In 1964, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, played a huge role in the Freedom Summer Civil Rights Movement. The movement aimed to increase African American votes at the polls. Last ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from ...

A new Mississippi Freedom Trail marker was unveiled in southwest Mississippi.On Monday, Visit Mississippi and the Mississippi Humanities Council unveiled the marker in Centreville.It honors civil ...

1. The color bar : experiences of segregation -- 2. The Montgomery bus boycott and the beginning of the movement -- 3. Different classrooms : segregation and integration in the schools -- 4. Sit-ins, ...

During the civil rights movement of the early 1960s, The Freedom Singers traveled across the country to raise funds for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. Their songs spread a message of ...

A veteran Memphis activist, a national civil rights leader and an executive with one of the world's most influential charitable foundations will be honored with this year's Freedom Award of the ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The 34th annual Freedom Awards was hosted downtown, with hundreds attending the event at the National Civil Rights Museum Thursday night. “I love that this night is all about ...

The fight for American civil rights spanned decades, cities and states, from Topeka, Kansas to Memphis, Tennessee and from Atlanta, Georgia to Selma, Alabama and all the way to our nation’s capital in ...