Former Atlanta mayor and civil rights leader Andrew Young has been discharged after being hospitalized Friday in what his family described as a precaution. The specific reason for the hospital ...

As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...

ATLANTA — On Friday, friends and family of the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders gathered at the historic Ebenezer ...

ATLANTA — Rev. Eric Terrell, a lifelong civil rights activist and pillar of the ... message of justice took on a new undertone: keep the movement going. Terrell spent his whole life creating ...

MLK's daughter spoke to Newsweek about the different trajectories of two Georgia natives, and how they aligned in the fight ...

some of his proudest moments came with the Civil Rights Movement. “He participated in a number of civil rights marches in Atlanta and Thomasville, as well as surrounding areas,” Mincey said.

Atlanta was also a hotbed of the Ku Klux ... From Egerton, John, Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994), pp.

In the 1960 presidential election, little focus was given to unrest in the South. So Atlanta activist Lonnie C. King came up with a plan, turning to his childhood friend MLK Jr. for support.

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Charles Person, the youngest original member of the Freedom Riders, passed away at 82 in Fayetteville. At 18, Person joined ...