Some 15 years after the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1966 ... the pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation to address civil rights issues. During World War II, many African Americans served their ...

Friday marks 60 years since “Bloody Sunday,” a major turning point in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s ... ALABAMA - ...

The 54 mile long March, over five days from Selma to ... King supported a number of different direct action protests during the civil rights movement, including: Sit-ins by students who were ...

Civil Rights Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. led the 1963 March on Washington ... Modern Application: During Trump’s travel ban on predominantly Muslim countries, activists staged sit-ins ...

During the civil rights movement, the church served as a meeting place for the foot soldiers on Bloody Sunday before the Selma to Montgomery March, as well as a refuge from the violence that ensued.

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement. The protests he organized, the marches he led and the ...

A Montgomery-based nonprofit organization that advocates for civil rights and racial equality is inviting the community to ...

In telling the story of the movement from 1954 to 1965 — the key years of marches, sit-ins, grassroots organizing and federal legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — it brought ...