Issued after the Union victory at Antietam, the Emancipation Proclamation had both moral and strategic implications.

From the NAACP to the Black Lives Matter movement, we're counting down the biggest civil rights turning points in every decade.

Nearly a century before Rosa Parks, Elizabeth Jennings challenged segregated transit in New York City.

On December 1, 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, AL and sparked the American Civil Rights movement of the 20th century.