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The year 1968 did not go quietly. Events like the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy shocked ...
A single event didn’t define the American civil rights movement; it was a sustained, courageous fight for equality that ...
Schapiro said he believes that his image of the five men marching together symbolizes the positive aspects of the civil rights movement while Charles Moore’s photos of African-American ...
"The Journey of Democracy" features California documents and photos of the ceremony where Lyndon B. Johnson signed the ...
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.
As a twentysomething freelance journalist at the Birmingham News, James "Spider" Martin was tasked with capturing these moments with his camera, after state troopers shot and killed civil rights ...
Local Civil rights groups protest, outside the Naval Academy’s Gate One, an executive order by President Donald Trump that removed 381 books from the academy. Pastor Stephen Tillett, a retired ...
Montgomery will also host a virtual experience so those unable to attend can tune in remotely. Virtual attendees will see images from the Civil Rights Trail and the path to the Alabama State ...