Two Chicago civil rights legends, former Mayor Harold Washington and activist Asa Philip Randolph, were honored on their shared birthday.

April 15 will be known as the birthday shared by two Chicago civil rights legends, former Mayor Harold Washington and unionist and activist Asa Philip Randolph. News Today's news ...

Media outlets that praised Martin Luther King Jr.'s work in the South treated Northern segregation differently.

A Ladies Auxiliary Women’s History Museum is planned near the National A. Philip Randolph Pullman Porter Museum in Pullman.

Chicago white racists were notorious for ... increased again in the 1950s and 1960s in opposition to the civil rights movement. In line with their founding ambitions, the Ku Klux Klan attacked ...

Diane Nash (1938-) A Chicago native who had never experienced ... his African heritage and distanced himself from the civil rights movement's earlier commitment to nonviolence, making common ...

A landmark Justice Department office created in the 1960's during the civil rights movement is marked for closure by the Trump administration, raising fears of a loss of generations of work ...

His gruesome death, brought starkly home by his mother’s insistence on having an open casket at his funeral in Chicago, became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. “She also ...