civil-rights

Ruby Bridges was born on September 8, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi, and spent her early childhood in New Orleans, Louisiana. She grew up in a working-class family during the...

On June 21, 1964, three civil rights workers—James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner—were murdered in Mississippi during Freedom Summer. This verified explainer...

Glenda Dahmer is known primarily as the former wife of Vernon Dahmer, a prominent civil rights leader and businessman in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Public interest in her arises...

The NAACP Award 2024 honors individuals, organizations, and programs that advance racial equity, civic engagement, education, health, and economic empowerment. These accolades s...

Martin Luther King Jr was a Baptist minister and social justice organizer who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from the midâ...

Martin Luther King Jr.’s mother, Alberta Williams King, was killed on June 30, 1974, at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, by Marcus Wayne Chenault Jr. , a 23-year-o...

Ruby Bridges is famous for becoming the first African American child to desegregate an all-white elementary school in the American South. In November 1960, at age six, she walke...

Martin Luther King Jr. is widely documented through photographs that span his leadership in the Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the Selma voting rights marc...

Myrlie Evers-Williams is the widow of Medgar Wiley Evers, the prominent civil rights leader and NAACP field secretary assassinated in 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. She is known...

In June 1964, the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner near Philadelphia, Mississippi, drew national attention to racial violence and civil rights acti...