Philip Randolph and other railroad sleeping-car ... marking the beginning of sustained trade union organization among American workers. Why Were Unions Created? Labor unions were created to ...

Hedgeman urged the male members of the march's planning committee to have a woman speaker, but they initially refused.

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...

The widespread favorable media response to the pardon speaks to the enduring usefulness of Garvey’s brand of identity ...

Detroiters like Stevie Wonder and John Conyers were instrumental in making Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a federal ...

Philip Randolph. King worked with Randolph as well, especially in planning the 1963 March on Washington. King was assassinated in Memphis while there to lead a nonviolent march in support ...

Black history is made daily but because of Carter G. Woodson — nicknamed the father of Black History Month — the celebration of Black culture is commemorated during the second month of the year.

There is a small but noisy minority “who want to see no evil and hear no evil, even though they know in their hearts that evil exists,” FDR said on Sunday, Dec. 29, 1940.