The event featured King’s famous “I have a Dream” speech and showed the prominence of the movement in national politics, ...

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 Congressman ...

The second civil rights movement began when we realized that racial inequality did not disappear in 1964 — nor in 2008, with the election of America’s first Black president.

The This Side of The Bridge March commemorated the 60th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March. Marchers and speakers reflected on the progress made in civil rights while acknowledging the ...

Viola Liuzzo. The shooting death of Liuzzo took place on Route 80 in Lowndesboro, Alabama, as she and Leroy Moton, another civil rights worker, drove marchers back and forth from Montgomery to ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Key figure in civil rights movement, youngest ‘Freedom Rider’ honored after passing at 82 For the 60th anniversary this weekend, Georgia Sen. Raphael Warnock says he will make the trip to Selma.