A memorial is planned for Thursday to honor attorney James Ferguson, who championed civil rights and integration in Charlotte schools.

Around 2009, Lewis initiated the tradition, leading a congressional delegation and others to the SPLC memorial and laying down a wreath to commemorate those who died during the fight for equal rights.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – In 1963, Margaret Walker’s neighbor, civil rights activist Medgar Evers, was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a white supremacist, in Jackson, Mississippi. Then, 150 ...

The National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel, Memphis, Tenn. A useful starting point, the museum is the site of the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.

Created by Vietnam Veterans Memorial designer Maya Lin, the circular granite memorial honors 40 who had their lives stolen during the modern civil rights era, between 1954 and 1968.

On Nov. 5, 1989, the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama, dedicated the Civil Rights Memorial. It is located at 400 Washington Avenue in the city of Alabama.

More than a million people have visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., since it opened four years ago. It's a project of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) that ...

One of the must-visit stops on any history-themed tour of Montgomery is the Civil Rights Memorial, accessible 24 hours a day at 400 Washington Ave., just across the street from the the Southern ...

Civil Rights leader, Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) said Dr. King’s assassination had an effect on our consciousness unlike the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy.

"This is Bricklayers Hall," explains John Key with the Alabama Civil Rights Tourism Association. "It was built as the Black Bricklayers Union in 1954." ...

A state once synonymous with flinty defiance of court-ordered school integration is celebrating the latest symbol of its often-difficult embrace of equality: the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial ...