A close associate of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, he was involved in many of the key moments of the Black freedom ...

Rev. Hilton O. Smith, a longtime civil rights leader and former president of the Cleveland NAACP, has died at age 79.

Bernard LaFayette, who died March 5, was instrumental in the organization of students across Nashville to protest segregated lunch counters in 1960.

Civil rights legend Bernard LaFayette reshaped the course of the nation. But what I remember most was his joy and unwavering ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. will be honored at the South Carolina capitol in the state where he was born and where his crusade career as a civil rights activist started in high ...