They came toward us. Beating us with nightsticks, trampled by horses, releasing the tear gas. I thought I was gonna die on ...

Council voted hours after the family of Cornelius Taylor chanted for change outside City Hall. It's now up to Mayor Andre Dickens to sign or veto the legislation.

Charles Person, the youngest of the original 13 Freedom Riders, has died at 82. Person was only ... including former Georgia Rep. John Lewis. Despite the violence and hostility the groups faced ...

A statue of the late U.S. Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights icon, has been unveiled in Alabama’s capital city. The likeness, called Steadfast Stride Toward Justice, sits in the Equal Justice ...

in 1961 in an effort to integrate interstate bus terminals across the South — and who were nearly beaten to death for doing so — died on Wednesday ... congressman John Lewis, and six white ...

John Lewis about to vote at his polling station in Atlanta, Georgia ... Bernard Lafayette and C.T. Vivian, who died at the age of 95 on July 17, 2020. Congressman John Lewis died at the age ...

In a rare happening, the King holiday falls on the same day as the presidential inauguration. Activists vow to continue the ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

“We thought the worst that could happen was ketchup or condiments being thrown at us, or someone might spit on us,” Mr. Person recalled in a September interview with the Atlanta Voic ...

He was invited on the original Freedom Ride as a representative of the Atlanta student movement, alongside activists that included future congressman John Lewis. Traveling on two buses ...

It’s filled to the brim with press credentials and other memorabilia I’ve kept from the political events I started covering when I came to Atlanta ... Max Cleland, John Lewis, Zell Miller ...