Fannie Lou Hamer was a force to be reckoned with. Enduring intractable racism, police beatings, and even forced sterilization, she never stopped …

Fannie Lou Townsend Hamer started her life as the 20th child of Mississippi sharecroppers and ended it as a leader and a hero for civil and voting …

The civil rights movement is one of the most talked about and discussed social and political movements of the 20th century. And yet, we're grossly misinformed about many aspects of it. Thanks, weirdly...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- the NAACP -- was officially founded in 1909, but its roots stretched farther back …

From abortion to guns to religion to free speech, the ACLU has been at the center of America's most contentious issues.