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

Dr Martin Luther King Jr, a pivotal leader in the American Civil Rights Movement, was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. His ...

What the history of the civil rights movement actually shows is that when change happens, it is often because people were courageous for decades and sometimes generations in the wilderness.

Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...

The 1960 Presidential Election The presidential election of 1960 was one of the closest in history ... invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech ...

Discover the deep history and connection between Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Penn Center, a former school for ...

On the evening of March 25, 1965, Viola Liuzzo, the 39-year-old mother of five children, was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan ...

"Memphis carries a special place in American history," Memphis Mayor Paul Young said ... embodied those two elements during ...

The family of Dr Martin Luther King have criticised far-right leader Marine Le Pen for comparing her ban from running in the ...