King also long advocated for education as part of the civil rights movement. Today, leaders like Becky Pringle, the president of the National Education Association, are stepping forward.

1. Martin Luther King Jr. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and theologian who became the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement. His ideology was rooted ...

Lawson was an apostle of nonviolent protest — and close adviser to Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. — who schooled activists to withstand brutal reactions from white authorities as the Civil Rights ...

Congressman John Lewis, legend of the Civil Rights movement, a leader of the 1963 March on Washington, and an icon for grassroots organizers for more than five decades, died on July 17 ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice Department's division tasked with enforcing the nation's federal civil rights laws has recently seen a mass ...

ExploreNikema Williams steps down as chair of Georgia Democratic Party Atlanta, often referred to as the cradle of the civil rights movement, offered a meaningful launch to the tour, said Angela ...

A veteran activist of the Civil Rights Movement said he was notified by the Smithsonian Institution that items he loaned to ...

April 11 marks a century since the birth of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the Detroit mother of five murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement.

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Tabellini, Marco, Silvia Farina, and Andy Ferrara. "World War II and the Roots of the Civil Rights Movement." Working Paper, 2022.