Here are seven notable mass gatherings of the civil rights movement. Colored Convention ... Nevertheless, the marchers ...

Marchers and speakers reflected on the progress ... something she said is crucial to keep the civil rights movement alive. "When you're walking, you clear your head and it centers you, it grounds ...

During the civil rights movement ... testimony" to the role it played in the civil rights movement. More: Bloody Sunday: ...

This column was adapted from the forthcoming “New Prize for These Eyes: The Rise of America’s Second Civil Rights Movement,” to ... state police against the marchers could not be seen ...

ATLANTA — Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s ... But the attack on the marchers bolstered support for the Voting ...

Early that morning, we gathered at the historic Brown AME chapel, which played a large role in the civil rights movement. Activists would gather ... rights groups nationwide recognized the original ...

If the first civil rights movement was defined by three words ... That was bigger than the 39 percent of marchers who were Latino and Black. And it is important to note that the second-largest ...

Black women have always been a crucial part of the civil rights struggle – not only as part of the masses and the marchers, but as masterminds of the movement. But Black women faced the dual ...

The landmark church was a foundation of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King ... the 1968 Sanitation Workers’ Strike. When marchers filled its sanctuary, it wasn’t just about ...

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 ...