Congress Honors S.C. Civil Rights Figures
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Congress on Wednesday bestowed gold medals on four South Carolinians whose fight to win school busing for black students in the 1950s paved the way for the desegregation of the nation's schools.
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Black leaders in Congress asked the federal government yesterday to weigh in on the legality of a vote by the Cherokee Nation earlier this month to revoke citizenship from descendants of former tribal slaves.
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The University of Mississippi marked the 44th anniversary of its integration Sunday by dedicating a civil rights monument at a ceremony attended by politicians, actor Morgan Freeman and the student, now 73, who started it all.
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Many Americans spent Monday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. by recalling the civil rights icon's legacy nearly 40 years after his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee.
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By Dave Munday, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 16--SUMMERVILLE, S.C. -- Dorchester County's proposal to limit the  number of houses that can be built near Charleston's historic plantations  along S.C. Highway 61 is a long way from a done deal.
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Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm,  the first African American woman elected to Congress and a  champion of women's rights, died on Saturday in Florida,  congressional officials said. She was 80.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first black US congresswoman and also the first woman to seek presidency, dies aged 80.
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A delegation of senators touring U.S. military cemeteries in Europe laid wreaths Monday near the graves of thousands of soldiers, including many who died storming the beaches of Normandy on D-Day in June 1944.
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Tours, exhibits and commemorative plaques in the Capitol should recognize the contributions of slaves in constructing Congress' home, experts told a House committee Wednesday
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In South Carolina, a state where religion counts for Democrats, it's not unusual for community leaders to have two titles Â Rev. and Rep.
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Rep. John Lewis' first march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Alabama helped change civil rights laws. Next month will be his seventh march aiming to change the lawmakers.
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House GOP leaders have stepped in to help a Democratic congresswoman who is facing a discrimination lawsuit, arguing that lawmakers are shielded under a clause in the Constitution that was derived from British parliamentarians concerned about royal persecution.
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NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C., June 22 -- Nine caskets lined the front of a coliseum Friday as thousands of firefighters from across the nation, hats in hands, honored nine colleagues killed in a furniture store blaze.
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By Michael Sluss and Beth Jones, The Roanoke Times, Va.  Feb. 4--RICHMOND -- Vic Thomas was not a controversial figure during his 30-year career in the House of Delegates.
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Former U.S. Rep. Shirley Chisholm made her mark by holding fast to her convictions and speaking out for women, minorities and the poor, said mourners attending a service Saturday for the first black woman elected to Congress.
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Four retiring Senators with 111 years of combined experience in Congress--Democrats Ernest (Fritz) Hollings of South Carolina and John Breaux of Louisiana and Republicans Don Nickles of Oklahoma and Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado--sat down for a last debate with TIME's Michael Duffy and Douglas Waller
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Two more black South Carolina lawmakers endorsing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton have ties to a media consulting firm hired by the White House hopeful.