A new ProPublica analysis shows a stark pattern across states in the Deep South: Alongside majority-Black public school ...

Leading a cohort of next-generation Southern leaders in both parties, Carter grafted the region back on the national map by ...

Jimmy Carter's evolution from his upbringing in the segregated Jim Crow South to becoming a champion for civil rights.

the enormous bravery and enormous courage of ordinary white people in the Deep South in dealing with race issues is not recognised," Mr Gorton says. "So many people suffered but they have been ...

Charles Person was just 18 when he volunteered to join the Freedom Riders, who faced violent racism on their journey to ...

This is how the government legally segregated our country.

In the wake of Jimmy Carter's death, biographer Kai Bird, author of 'The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter' discusses the late president's successes and failures.

However, both rulings were largely ignored in the Deep South. On May 4 ... a way to draw national attention to the harsh reality of segregation and put pressure on the federal government to ...