The city of Shreveport is known for non-violence during the civil rights movement. But are you aware that Shreveport took the non-violent path because of a young reverend who taught Martin Luther ...

The civil rights movement used aggressive non-violence that sought to impose costs on the foe. Indeed, the city of Birmingham, Alabama, is still paying those costs.

The civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 60s changed America. It’s hard to think of the nonviolent movement and its leader, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., in military terms.

Then, New York Times bestselling author, Thomas E. Ricks, joins us to talk about the Civil Rights Movement from a military perspective and discusses the non-violent strategies that were used and ...

Story at a glance A survey released by More in Common found that most Americans remember the civil rights movement for its nonviolent protests and leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. and ...

Whitaker writes that it wasn't just the language of the civil rights movement that changed in 1966. There was also an "awakening of Black consciousness on a cultural level," he says.