Channel 2′s Karyn Greer spoke with Ambassador Andrew Young about his most memorable moments of the civil rights movement. “I ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Sen. Raphael Warnock holds the same pulpit Martin Luther King Jr. once preached from. He told Morning Edition that "your life's project should be longer and larger than your lifespan." ...

However, the report also notes that the discrediting of civil society organizations in Georgia began even before the adoption of this repressive legislation. The UN Special Rapporteur on the situation ...

Understanding the Civil Rights Act of 1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is widely considered one of the greatest achievements of the civil rights movement. This historic federal legislation ...

The teens stopped because they were Black, and James Earl Carter Jr. was white, a 14-year-old whose father owned the Georgia land ... the peak of the Civil Rights Movement, Carter was silent ...

For an in-depth look at the American civil rights movement and ongoing human rights ... It sits between the World of Coca-Cola and the Georgia Aquarium, both of which has fee-charging parking ...

The protests across Georgia have been going on for well over a month now taking ... on GD officials and other individuals for undermining democracy and violating human rights. However, the Georgian ...

Georgia, to challenge the county's at-large method of electing its board of commissioners, alleging the process violates Black voters' rights. The at-large method results in Black citizens having ...

The North Carolina native moved to Georgia to minister for the predominantly Black congregation amid rising racial tensions and a burgeoning civil rights movement. Hairston became a part of that ...

These laws were among the harvest of King’s labor during the time that he led the nation’s civil rights movement, from the Montgomery Bus ... Stacey Adams stepped up. The former Georgia State ...

Ga. 2011 – Teaching Tolerance releases Teaching the Movement: The State of Civil Rights Education 2011, a report finding that most states fail at teaching students about the civil rights movement.