Civil Rights

The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who died Tuesday at the age of 84, was known not just as a tireless advocate for the Civil Rights Movement but as one of its most dynamic orators.

Joseph McNeil, along with Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.) and the late David Richmond and Franklin McCain, protested racial segregation at a Woolworths diner in Greensboro. Khazan is now the only living member of the four.

Frank Alexander lost his Morehead scholarship in the 1970s after getting arrested at a civil rights protest. He tells his story 50 years later, after meeting another scholar who lost her award amid pro-Palestinian activism.

The prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump joined a legal team to represent Henrietta Mason, whose son, Tyrone Mason, died in a crash involving the State Highway Patrol.

A week after Rosa Parks began a bus boycott protesting segregation, several Black men played a round of golf at the whites-only Gillespie Golf Course in Greensboro, NC.

A week after Rosa Parks began a bus boycott protesting segregation, several Black men played a round of golf at the whites-only Gillespie Golf Course in Greensboro, NC. A new mural portraying the men is unveiled this week.

In 1957, young Virginia Williams made history as part of the Royal Ice Cream sit-in movement in Durham. Williams, now 87, was recently honored at an ice cream social at NorthStar Church of the Arts.

Comedian Roy Wood Jr. takes a break from stand up to sit down with historians and former Negro League players in the new NPR podcast "Road to Rickwood."

Co-host Leoneda Inge talks with Chris Holaday, author of Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas.

60 years ago, on Sept. 15, 1963, "Four Little Girls" were killed in a bombing set by the Ku Klux Klan at 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Some who lived through the trauma wonder if anything has changed.