They didn’t think I’d finish my walk alive," Moore wrote in his diary. "They didn’t think people believed I really stood for ...

Dr. Norman Francis, former HBCU president and influential leader in education and banking, died in New Orleans, Louisiana, at age 94 on February 18, 2026.

Norman C. Francis was one of the most influential New Orleanians of the past century. These five moments and memories help ...

The University also objected to “affirmative action and women.” ...

In 1961, when Hezekiah Watkins was 13, he was arrested and placed on death row after entering the “whites only” section of a bus station in Jackson, Mississippi.

If Montgomery has one thing, its tangible history. This Black History Month, archivists urge the public to engage with ...

When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a strategy that reshaped the civil rights movement.

Stanley Nelson’s Emmy Award winning documentary recounts the organization, intentions and lasting influence of mostly young college students who challenged segregation in the Deep South in 1961.

73 year old Hezekiah Watkins now spends his days working at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Lee. He's not just an employee. He's a part of history. And so you grew up in the midst of the civil ...

Hezekiah Watkins was just 13 years old when he was arrested in Jackson in 1961 along with dozens of other civil rights activists. On Martin Luther King Jr. Day in 2026, Watkins received an official ...