The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a Whites-only lunch counter.

President Joe Biden spent his final full day in office in South Carolina, urging Americans to “keep the faith in a better day ...

The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are ...

King Day at the Dome started in 2000 as a protest to the Confederate flag flying over the State House dome and inside both ...

University of South Carolina turned him away from its law school, Jacob Joseph Martin was honored at USC as a civil rights ...

In his final full day as president, Joe Biden visited South Carolina and urged Americans to maintain hope, reflecting on the civil rights movement's influence on his political career. Highlighting his ...

Nearly 60 years after Martin Luther King Jr.’s death, Democratic leaders called on Black South Carolinians to take up his ...

Joe Biden spent his final full day as president Sunday in South Carolina, urging Americans to “keep the faith in a better day to come” and reflecting on the influence of both the civil rights movement ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

COLUMBIA — Seventy-five years after a segregated University of South Carolina turned him ... set the stage to advance the modern civil rights movement." When the university returned his 1950 ...