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

The 1954 Brown v Topeka case was an important turning point in the civil rights movement, as it showed that the Supreme Court was prepared to take action to end segregation in the USA. In 1865 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

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

Egerton has explored many aspects of Southern history and culture. His Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South (1994) explores topics like ...

is the man behind a moving and expansive new exhibition documenting the effect of imagery on the civil rights movement for the National Museum of African American History and Culture. (The ...