It was the early spring of 1963, Saturday, March 23, and again on Saturday, March 30, to be exact when a group of ...

On August 28, 1963, more than 250,000 people gathered in the nation’s capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The march was the brainchild of longtime civil rights activist and labor ...

A voter registration campaign in Selma had been launched back in 1963 by local ... The night of the second march, a group of white men beat and ultimately murdered civil rights activist James ...

The first civil rights march, in April 1963, ended with Dr King and other leaders of the march being arrested and put in prison. While in prison, King wrote ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail ...

On March 25, 1965, triumphant civil rights demonstrators led by Martin Luther ... Dallas County and a successful commercial center. In 1963 a group of community activists formed the "Dallas ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — Over a thousand students, known as foot soldiers, participated in a nonviolence march in downtown Birmingham against segregation 61 years ago. That march, known as the ...

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It was the early spring of 1963, Saturday, March 23, and again on Saturday, March 30, to be exact when a group of anti-segregation demonstrators led by Civil Rights activist John Lewis staged a ...