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

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

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 ...

March in Chicago marks 57 years since assassination of Dr. MLK Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. spent time in Chicago fighting for racial and economic equality for people of color. The community ...

They don't have a civil rights movement to coalesce around ... Rashad first joined the production ahead of its premiere run in Chicago at the Steppenwolf Theatre Company last year. When she signed on, ...

From the Sun-Times archives Share This article has been republished from our archives as part of a series on the “Chicago 7 ... violations of the 1866 Civil Rights Act. The indictment naming ...

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 ...

There was a benefit for SNCC McCormick Place in Chicago, that featured gospel groups with a chorus of freedom singers from across the south. The Civil Rights Movement challenged racism ...