More than three thousand people joined Dr. Martin Luther King on a march escorted by U.S. Army troops from Selma to Montgomery Alabama, becoming one of the most iconic moments in Civil Rights history.

This day became known as Turnaround Tuesday. On the last attempt, on March 21, more than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators marched from Brown Chapel AME Church, across the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

The 60th anniversary of the historic Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches that culminated in the passing of the landmark Voting Rights Act, will be commemorated in March of 2025. As in ...

We are the dreamers. We are the children of the dream.” In the wake of the march in 1963, Congress passed landmark civil rights legislation, including the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 ...

The first attempt came on Sunday, March 7, 1965, when the legendary John Lewis, then 25, and Hosea Williams, the prominent civil rights leader and ordained minister, led a group of more than 500 ...

It was made just as starkly clear after the march, when the civil rights leaders went to the White House to see President Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon Johnson. The Demand. To all, the civil ...

Pamela Sargent cherishes two distinctive attributes of Fred Reed: his steadfast courage during civil rights marches and the deep, resonant timbre of his voice that could stir the soul. Reed was a ...

March 30, to be exact when a group of anti-segregation demonstrators led by Civil Rights activist John Lewis staged a "Freedom March" through the streets of downtown Nashville protesting the ...

On March 18, 1968, Dr. King offered his support ... Robinson has worked to promote civil rights. She serves on the executive committee of the NAACP of Boulder County, and conducts educational ...

As a part of their Pride Month celebration, the National Civil Rights Museum is hosting a screening of the 2003 documentary film, "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin", about the life and ...

Bayard Rustin contained multitudes. He molded intersecting social movements as an activist: nonviolence, civil rights, gay rights. He went to jail more than 25 times as a protestor. He once was ...

Fred Reed, a civil rights activist known for his role in the Milwaukee Commandos, has died at 87. Reed was a dedicated historian who worked to preserve the legacy of the Milwaukee marches.