The expansion of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail illustrates how all the facets of the Civil Rights Movement unfolded in ...

The City of St. Jude Parish hosted thousands of Civil Rights marchers amid a push for justice in the segregated 1960s South. The City of St. Jude Parish in Montgomery, Alabama. (photo: Photo courtesy ...

HISTORY. MORGAN’S RICH LEGACY HAS ALWAYS BEEN SHAPED BY BOLD ACTION AND PURPOSE, ESPECIALLY BY ITS STUDENTS, INCLUDING THIS GROUP WHO RISKED THEIR OWN SAFETY FOR DESEGREGATION. FOR WHATEVER REASON, ...

Mr. Jackson was critical to Martin Luther King Jr.’s quest to transform a fight for equality in the South to a national movement for economic and social justice. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ...

Known as the “godmother of civil rights,” Dorothy Height fought not just for racial justice but for women’s equality. Morris Dosewell, Dorothy Height, Alexander Allen, Basil Paterson, and Bayard ...

[Horn plays] [Drum roll begins] FANNIE LOU HAMER: I question America, Is this America? The land of the free and the home of the brave. ELAINE BROWN: The Black Panther Party with many other groups and ...

Several years ago, as a history student at Elizabethtown College, I began researching a Middletown native with a strong national tie to the Civil Rights Movement. William (Wilbur) Miller Barbour (1908 ...

CHICAGO — The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil Rights Movement for decades after the revered leader's ...

READING, Pa. - It's an image etched in history. "He was present there when the assassination occurred, in the inner circle of kings - folks that were trying to bring Civil Rights to the forefront," ...