Harriet Tubman was posthumously commissioned as brigadier general of the Maryland National Guard at a Veteran’s Day ceremony.

Once upon a time in Alabama, the Republican Party was reviled. Today, it dominates the state's political landscape.

A statue of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, has been unveiled in Alabama's capital city.The likeness, ...

Abraham Lincoln of Illinois was elected President of the United States of America on November 6, 1860, for a four-year term. One year later, on November 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was ...

The Advertiser asked Hyde for a rundown of the most haunted places she’s experienced in Alabama, which she said ... and it survived the Civil War.” Hyde said that family member Anne Lowry ...

The S.S. United States’ journey down to Mobile was delayed this week due to concerns over a tropical disturbance forming in ...

But the Vietnam war eroded Johnson's support ... minister just starting out in Montgomery, Alabama, he helped lead the bus boycottthat initiated the modern civil rights movement.

Moses Smith was an activist who advocated for Black voting rights. He lost his life to racial violence in 1868.

A shooting early Sunday during homecoming weekend at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and injured 16 others, a dozen of them by gunfire, authorities said. One arrest was announced ...

On Nov. 23, the Chicago History Museum is opening a new exhibition, “Injustice: The Trial for the Murder of Emmett Till.” ...

Angry crowds greeted the Freedom Riders in Alabama on May 14 ... His assassin was in Memphis to meet him. The Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement (1967-68) On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther ...

Employing federal troops to suppress domestic protests and deport immigrants from U.S. soil en masse would be illegal, but ...