Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

The late civil rights movement activist was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Ala. A seamstress by trade, Parks got nationwide attention in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on ...

He believes the most simple images can deliver an emotional wallop ... became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. “She also directed photographers to take pictures of the body ...

The modern civil rights movement focuses on expanding opportunity ... The test flashes up images of people from a variety of racial groups, and pairs them with negative and positive words.

Among the demonstrators were “seven or eight out-of-state ministers,” United Press International reported, adding that they wore the “blue denim ‘uniform’ of the civil rights movement ...

Birmingham, Ala. (WIAT) — An array of photos covering the civil rights movement in Alabama by famed Birmingham News photographer Spider Martin will be on display for the next few weeks at ...

New Haven: Yale University Press. Bullard, Sara. (1993). Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The ...

His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...