Medgar Evers — who served with the U.S. Army in World War II before coming home to fight segregation in the civil rights ...

(WIAT) — An array of photos covering the civil rights movement in Alabama by famed Birmingham ... “Two Minute Warning,” named for the famous picture Martin captured on March 7, 1965, at ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955, when Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on an ...

Photographer Andrew Feiler documented the last remaining Rosenwald Schools built to educate Black children during segregation ...

Eisenhower was elected president in 1952 and held office during the years when the civil rights movement achieved its ... democracy when he delivered the famous "I Have a Dream" speech at 1963's ...

Under Dr. King’s leadership, nonviolent protest became the defining feature of the modern civil rights movement in America. King first demonstrated the efficacy of passive resistance in 1955–56 while ...

Housed in the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968, the museum features multimedia presentations on the civil rights movement. With the help of 260 ...

The ongoing struggle in America for racial equality has its roots in the trade of enslaved people, the Civil War and the abolition of slavery. The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was ...

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

Feiler, a fifth-generation Jewish civil rights activist ... The exhibition features 24 photographs, but Feiler has also published a book with over 100 additional images. For its introduction ...