Discover Barack Obama's journey from community organizer to first African American US President. Legacy and impact.

James "Spider" Martin was assigned to photograph the protests in Alabama after civil rights activist Jimmie Lee Jackson was ...

Crispus Attucks is shot and killed by British soldiers becoming the first American to die in the struggle for American Independence from England. Attucks was an escaped slave who became a sailor and ...

He made history as Montgomery County’s first Black county ... got involved in the civil rights movement, and met with Martin Luther King Jr. twice. He was a brigade commander for the ROTC ...

Springtime brings one of the most iconic symbols of the season—the blooming of the famous Washington, DC cherry blossoms.

(wagons creaking, horses walking) (bicycle bell ringing, car horns honking) (streetcar bell ringing) (people talking in background ... attention went to Martin Luther King and the new movement.

They are, by definition, the people who have the political capital, the economic capital ... All the attention went to Martin Luther King and to the new movement. KIDADA WILLIAMS, HISTORIAN ...

John Lewis in a vintage photo taken in Selma ... from Mississippi to Alabama to join Lewis, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and about 25,000 fellow citizens to walk the 54 miles from Selma to ...