'She Who Dared,' an opera about women in the civil rights movement, opens in Chicago A new opera tells the story of the Black women who organized in Alabama leading up to the Montgomery bus boycott.

New opera honors the Black women of the Civil Rights Movement “She Who Dared,” likely the first professionally staged opera by Black women, premieres June 3 in Chicago.

One of the most visible murals from the CTA’s Red Line is an Uptown painting by Darius Dennis of a 1966 photo by Danny Lyon, a Civil Rights Movement photographer with strong Chicago ties.

CHICAGO — Chicago civil rights leaders and Illinois politicians reaffirmed their dedication to protecting ... who worked alongside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the Civil Rights movement.

In 1966 the SCLC turned its focus to Northern ghettos with the Chicago Freedom Movement, and after King's 1968 assassination it conducted a Poor People's Campaign of civil disobedience, the ...

A new opera which premiered this week in Chicago highlights the lesser-known women who worked alongside Rosa Parks during the Civil Rights Movement. Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station ...

But as the new opera "She Who Dared" tells it, Parks was part of a larger movement that was taking hold in the late 1950s in Montgomery, Alabama. Here's librettist Deborah D.E.E.P. Mouton, who ...

Reporter Courtney Kueppers from member station WBEZ in Chicago has more. COURTNEY KUEPPERS, BYLINE: When Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white rider on a segregated bus, the world took ...