Civil rights protests are being held across the United States on Thursday, five years after the death of John Lewis. July 17 marks five years since civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis died.

Vietnam War Protests: Some activists encouraged economic boycotts of companies supporting the war effort. Civil Rights Movement: The Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955–1956) lasted over a year and ...

Over 100 California cities join July 17 protests honoring Rep. John Lewis and opposing civil rights rollbacks. Follow live ...

More than two dozen protests were planned across Arizona to honor the late Rep. John Lewis, a longtime civil rights leader.

CHICAGO — Civil rights activist and Georgia congressman John Lewis was known for saying he got into "good trouble" by using ...

The media coverage shifts from civil rights to crime and disorder. He points to the 1968 riots that broke out in part by the assasination of Martin Luther King Jr. “Nixon was able to win on a law and ...

Demonstrators have taken to the streets across multiple states on Thursday to protest President Donald Trump’s Administration ...

What does "Good Trouble" mean, who was John Lewis and where are Thursday's protests? What to know about the events happening ...

Civil rights leaders, including James Bevel, recruited young people to participate in a peaceful demonstration on May 2, 1963 in what became known as the Children's Crusade.

Conversely, in his book “Polite Protest,” Richard Pierce, a historian at the University of Notre Dame, studied a nonconfrontational civil rights movement in Indianapolis and found that it was ...

We are going to put together the largest peaceful protest in the history of this nation. ... The march itself secured the success of the civil rights movement and cemented King as an American hero.

Some lament that today’s anti-racism movement has no charismatic leaders like the civil rights era did. Such comparisons don’t reflect the real history of the struggle for Black equality in ...