Violent Southern conflict about black civil rights overtook the Kennedys, forcing them to intervene on the side of the integrationists. Still, President Kennedy resisted sending strong civil ...

The violence in Birmingham proved that Kennedy's piecemeal approach to civil rights had failed. Martin Luther King. and cabinet meeting , August 5 , 1965. Courtesy: Library of Congress Elected ...

takes part with suffragettes marching from the Women's Party Headquarters to the White House in the spring of 1917, to further their cause for voting rights. (AP Photo, File) ...

Kennedy and Senator Robert F ... Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a native of Atlanta and one of the most iconic Civil Rights leaders in history, was assassinated on April 4, 1968, outside the Lorraine ...

"For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years," said Bernice King and Martin Luther King III.

In 1963, a quarter of a million people marched on Washington to highlight racial injustice and to put pressure on Congress to pass Kennedy’s Civil Rights Bill. The march was made up of both ...