Articles
How TIME Covered the 1965 March from Selma to Montgomery
TIME takes a look back on the 48th year anniversary of the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery.
Justice Official to Be Nominated to Top Labor Slot
WASHINGTON — Seeking to fill yet another second-term Cabinet vacancy, President Barack Obama is set to nominate Thomas Perez, an assistant attorney general, to...
Rosa Parks Statue Set to be Unveiled at Capitol
Parks' descendants now have a chance to be first-hand witnesses as their late matriarch makes more history, this time becoming the first black woman to be...
Rosa Parks at 100
TIME honors the memory of Rosa Parks on the 100th year anniversary of her birth.
Harvesting Labor Rights: Chavez’s UFW At 50
On September 30, 1962, legendary Chicano civil rights activist Cesar Chavez founded what would become the United Farm Workers of America—and with migrant labor a...
Photo Essays
Strangers to Reason: LIFE Inside a Psychiatric Hospital, 1938
For all of the lighthearted and often downright frivolous material that appeared in LIFE through the years — and there was, thank goodness, a lot of...
LIFE and Civil Rights: Segregation in 1956 South Carolina
In late 1956, over the course of several months, LIFE published what the magazine itself described as “a series of major articles on the background of the crisis...
Time.com Specials
Civil Rights and the Obama Presidency
They paved the way for Barack Obama's historic Inauguration, to be held just one day after the nation's annual celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Seven icons...
The Lessons of J.F.K.
TIME looks at this prudent warrior and timeless icon to show today's leaders how to lead in a dangerous world, what candidates should say about faith, why civil...
