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 ...

turn me ‘round … 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 ...

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 ...

On Palm Sunday, April 13, the Titusville Memorial Marker Committee along with St. Paul Lutheran Church dedicated a marker ...

In 1963, a quarter of a million people marched on Washington to highlight racial injustice and to put pressure on Congress to pass Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill. The march was made up of both ...