Obama: Black history museum tells "fuller" story of U.S.
President delivers moving address on importance of new National Museum of African American History and Culture
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President delivers moving address on importance of new National Museum of African American History and Culture
As the new African-American history museum opens, 60 Minutes producer Nicole Young talks about the artifacts that affected her most
The Civil Rights Movement leader talked to “Face the Nation” ahead of the opening of the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture
Wrapped in bronze and inspired by the three-tiered crowns used in West African art, the museum shines brightly near the center of the National Mall
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The former secretary of state says National Museum of African American History and Culture is a symbol of what can be achieved
Artifacts tell stories of trial and triumph, of four centuries of the African American experience
From a former slave's freedom paper to a Tuskegee Airmen's jacket, families have donated thousands of heirlooms to the National Museum of African American History and Culture
A pioneer of the civil rights movement visits the new Smithsonian museum dedicated to African American history and culture
Judge Robert Wilkins, who helped bring the National Museum of African American History and Culture to life, says he gets "goosebumps to see it happening"
The state has never had a gay sheriff; residents of rural town already rallied behind Crystal Moore when mayor unfairly fired her
"Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote," President Lyndon B. Johnson said before a joint session of Congress just days after Bloody Sunday
Tom Houck, a chauffeur for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., shares what it was like having a driver's eye view on history
Bruce Davidson took photos documenting the "Freedom Riders" journey and other important moments from that pivotal time in U.S. history
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and Anne Fulenwider, Editor-in-Chief of Marie Claire, join studio 57 to discuss
During his famous march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Bill Plante
In March of 1965, CBS News cameras rode along with school children in Alabama at a legendary time in the civil rights movement. This weekend, people gathered on Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge to mark the anniversary of a brutal showdown between protesters and police. Senior White House correspondent Bill Plante, who covered the civil rights movement, reports from Selma, then joins the "CBS This Morning" co-hosts in the studio.
Scott Pelley spoke to three people who were at the March on Washington 50 years ago - Marian Wright Edelman, Andrew Young, and Julian Bond
Excerpts from the president's speech in Selma, Ala., marking the 50th anniversary of "Bloody Sunday"
50 years after activists in Alabama marched for the right to vote, the president talks about progress, the Voting Rights Act, and race relations today
The authorities' attacks on civil rights marchers a half-century ago illustrate how the right to vote was won by bloodshed
Nation's first black president leads remembrance of "Bloody Sunday" on its 50th anniversary
Powerful, iconic images chronicling the historic 1965 civil rights marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama by Spider Martin, James Baker and Charles Moore on the 50th anniversary
From the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to 103-year-old Amelia Boynton and CBS News' Bill Plante, watershed moment in the civil rights movement remembered
Stephen Somerstein was positioned right behind Martin Luther King Jr., when he captured one of the most powerful images of the Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights march