The act was passed in parliament in November 1965 - two years after civil rights activists in Bristol boycotted the Bristol ...

The Montgomery Bus Boycott did start as a one-day boycott of city buses Dec. 5, 1955. But the organizer — the Montgomery ...

felt as she continued to walk on during the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Thanks to this boycott, segregation on Montgomery’s busses came to an end, Martin Luther King Jr. emerged as ...

John Reynolds returned to Selma for the 60th anniversary of both the SCOPE program and the Selma to Montgomery march.

Eig said the “watering down” of King’s radical message is intentional, noting that King’s close friend Harry Belafonte believed the national holiday was designed to destroy King’s power — the holiday ...

The protesters of the civil rights movement didn’t just show up. They planned for every eventuality. It’s a lesson that’s starkly relevant today.

Boycotts are back. With people worried about everything from labour practices and human rights to tariffs and equal ...

On Feb. 28, the activist group People’s Union USA organized a 24-hour “economic blackout.” The group called upon people to ...

as shown when Martin Luther King Jr spoke of Gandhi as the guiding light of their technique of social change. King was one of the leaders of the famous Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956).

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Pastor Jamal Bryant of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church about leading a movement to swear off shopping at Target for Lent.

Charles Mauldin was near the front of a line of voting rights marchers walking in pairs across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in ...