“Although the convention movement did not end slavery or gain equal rights for African Americans, by the outbreak of the Civil War some other notable goals were achieved.” North Carolina ...

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 building was constructed and designed in 1908 by A. J. Farley, a formerly enslaved builder and designer. During the civil rights movement, the church served as a meeting place for the foot ...

Since 1965, voting rights advocates have gathered in Alabama annually for the Selma Jubilee to mark the anniversary by marching the Edmund Pettus Bridge in remembrance. This was the first year the ...

Black women made MLK's March on Washington happen. Yet their voices went unheard. Black women have always been a crucial part of the civil rights struggle – not only as part of the masses and ...

2. Rosa Parks. Often hailed as the “Mother of the Civil Rights Movement,” Rosa Parks became a national icon in 1955 when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery bus.

The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division is in upheaval amid a mass exodus of attorneys as the Trump administration moves to radically reshape the division, shelving its traditional mission ...

U.S. National Guard troops block off Beale Street as Civil Rights marchers wearing placards reading, "I AM A MAN" pass by on March 29, 1968. It was the third consecutive march held by the group in ...

During the civil rights movement, ... Marchers rally during the Bloody Sunday 60th anniversary march at Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Ala., on Sunday, March 9, 2025.