The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

He then joined the pursuit of the CORE station wagon. Edgar Ray Killen. Credit: FBI Catching up with the three Civil Rights workers on Highway 19, the Klansmen forced the men into their cars and ...

The integrated Greyhound buses carrying both black and white members of the Congress of Racial Equality had traveled ... formed Restore Our Alienated Rights (ROAR). Their rallies drew the support ...

CORE experimented with the use of non-violent protest as a means of gaining publicity for increased civil rights. In 1943, they used this tactic when staging their first ‘sit-in’ in a Chicago ...

Colorado Law offers a Civil Rights & Racial Justice Certificate designed to underscore a student’s completion of concentrated study in civil rights and/or racial justice law. The Certificate prepares ...

Southerners felt the need to introduce a specific legal system of racial control. After the 1875 Civil Rights Act was struck down as unconstitutional, the door was open for Southern states to ...