Turner, along with her six sisters, played a key role in the fight for civil rights in the 1960s. Known as the Lee Sisters, ...

Among them is Ida B. Wells, a pioneering journalist and activist who risked her life exposing racial violence in America. Born into slavery in 1862 in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells grew up ...

Mallory’s memoir aligns with the Museum’s mission to explore the ongoing struggle for civil and human rights by connecting past movements to present-day activism. Her story underscores a central truth ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (KRON) — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4th, 1968. Leaders in Memphis decided to transform the motel ...

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights icon who witnessed Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in Memphis and maintained ...

CHICAGO (AP) — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – Shedding more light on a difficult chapter in Tennessee history will soon be a reality, but Wednesday afternoon Governor Bill Haslam signed a bill setting up a special ...

Memphis city officials are back in the legal spotlight as two civil-rights organizations accuse them of slamming the door on public access to police records that could show whether long-promised ...

Memphis leaders and residents are mourning the death of civil rights icon Reverend Jesse Jackson, remembering a man whose influence shaped the national movement for justice and left a lasting imprint ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Tennessee demanded Friday that the Memphis Police Department comply with a Civil Rights-era consent decree limiting their ability to watch ...

The legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in Memphis lives on through the work of longtime activist and historian Elaine Lee Turner.