While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short in key areas ...

As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...

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From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!

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The Southern Poverty Law Center is a tax-exempt, charitable organization incorporated in 1971 under Section 501 (c) (3) of ...

President Lyndon B. Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. once visited Juanita Craft in her 1,300-square-foot South Dallas home ...

For Charles Person and Thomas Gaither, 1961 was an eventful year in their young lives. Person was 18 and became the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, and Gaither was 22 when he introduced the ...

Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League, and other civil rights leaders are calling for a “massive resistance movement ... We owe it to our children.” ...

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Their “jail no bail” tactic dramatized their moral commitment and changed the direction of the civil rights movement ... S.C., one of five children of Walter B. and Fannie (Little) Gaither.