The march came together blindingly fast. From conception to execution was less than three months. Finally, the day arrived, August 28, 1963—the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

She was just 17 years old. We got to sit down with Lee today, to talk about how the movement motivated her to become a lifetime civil rights activist. The March on Washington changed the ...

ATLANTA — Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. On March 7, 1965, hundreds of civil rights advocates, including late ...

The two Civil Rights leaders had radically opposing but important approaches to the fight for equality, rights and justice ...

Unlike recent years, the annual march across the Pettus Bridge ... Nikema Williams (D-Georgia) laid a wreath to the martyrs of the civil rights movement at a memorial outside the offices of ...

(KGET) — Each March 31 — the day civil rights icon Cesar Chavez was ... stood at the vanguard of the farm workers’ rights movement. In 1962, he co-founded the United Farm Workers union ...

both at events like the march and weekly as part of GirlTREK's mission, is one way to ensure solidarity, something she said is crucial to keep the civil rights movement alive. "When you're walking ...

the March on Washington? Rustin is credited as the primary architect of a number of significant, effective methods and ideas used in the movement. “Bayard Rustin was a civil rights organizer in ...

Of course, marches were a fundamental tool of the Civil Rights movement, the antiwar movement and more in the 1960s. There will undoubtedly be another moment when women will be compelled to march ...

The civil rights leader led a march through Howard Beach ... sexual violence and gender-based justice and evolving the Me Too movement.

If you've ever wondered what you would have done in the civil rights movement of the past, look at what you're doing now. This is our generation's fight. This is our Selma, our march. We have been ...