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 ...

Their deaths lead to a strike that becomes a civil rights movement. After a battle for the Vietnamese village of Ben Tre, an American officer tells Associated Press reporter Peter Arnett ...

Today, we trace the timeline of civil rights subversion — a step-by-step breakdown of how the movement was corrupted from within to serve a radical agenda. The 1964 Civil Rights Act was legitimate — ...

Historically Black colleges and universities were central to improving Black economic power and served as incubators for the Civil Rights movement. The fight against school segregation was an ...

Following in her footsteps were the women who made a difference in our city by taking the lead during the Civil Rights Movement. Topping that list is Maxine Smith, who was a brilliant and gutsy ...

Visitors of the Civil Rights Museum are greeted with a timeline of African American ... the events of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement from World War II through 1975. The museum also embraces ...

AMERICUS, Ga. (WALB) - An Americus-based group has plans to transform what was once an old colored hospital into a Civil ...

The Rev. Joseph W. Ellwanger, one of the few white Southern ministers who supported the civil rights movement and helped plan the Birmingham demonstrations in 1963, was honored with a historical ...

New Haven: Yale University Press. Bullard, Sara. (1993). Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and Those Who Died in the Struggle. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Blues People: The ...

Demands coming out of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s included higher education. Civil rights advocates, educators and students were not only calling for reforms in admissions policies ...