civil-rights-history

Jesse Jackson in the 1960s was a prominent organizer and public voice within the American civil rights movement. Working closely with Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Chr...

In August 1955, 14-year-old Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago, was abducted and murdered in Money, Mississippi, after being accused of flirting with Carolyn Bryant, a w...

In 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the American South, attending William Frantz Elementary in New Orl...

Martin Luther King Jr advanced civil rights through disciplined nonviolent direct action, leadership in grassroots campaigns, and national advocacy that shifted law and public o...

On February 21, 1965, activist Malcolm X was shot and killed inside the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan. Three men were convicted shortly after: Thomas Hagan, Norman 3X Butler, an...

James Baldwin and Martin Luther King Jr. are two of the most influential voices of the American civil rights era. Both confronted systemic racism, white supremacy, and moral inj...

Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968. He was shot while standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. James Earl Ray was later identif...

Emmett Till died in the early morning of August 28, 1955, after being abducted from a home in Money, Mississippi, and murdered in the Tallahatchie River three days later. On Aug...

Ruby Bridges is her legal given name; she was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, and is widely known for desegregating an all-white elementary school in New O...