According to The New York Times, Charles Person, the youngest of the 13 original Freedom Riders who traveled from Washington to Birmingham, Alabama, in...
On Jan. 10, 1957, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was founded in Atlanta, Georgia. Emerging from the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott,...
President Joe Biden presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, to 19 recipients, including actor Denzel Washington, basketball legend Earvin...