Northern Ireland’s second civil rights march, like the first, was a protest against discriminatory public housing policies that allocated houses to Protestants but not Catholics. The march ...

Northern Ireland’s first civil rights march had begun. A few weeks earlier, organiser Michael McLoughin had made his way to the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) barracks – then in town’s main ...

NICRA responded by organizing the first Northern Ireland civil rights march two months later. The march from the Co. Tyrone towns of Coalisland to Dungannon was incident free. That was not the ...

A civil rights march in Londonderry 50 years ago "galvanised ... with the support of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). NICRA had formed in 1967, and drew inspiration from ...

On New Year’s Day, 1969, a group of student civil rights activists began walking from Belfast to Derry. Their protest was inspired by the famous 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, a high point of ...

Often regarded as marking the start of the Troubles, the Duke Street march was a crucial turning point in the campaign for civil rights in Northern Ireland. Planned by the Derry Housing Action ...

As early as 1963, civil rights protesters in Northern ... march on the lines of the Selma-Montgomery march. Oddly, perhaps, the Northern Ireland protesters identified more with black American ...

Ultimately, troops shot 26 unarmed civilians during the protest march against internment ... The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland & Black America describes King as “an enormously ...

On the 50th anniversary of the 5 October 1968 march in Londonderry, BBC News NI considers the background to the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. Julie Ann McIlwaine admitted killing ...

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British soldiers and members of the press are pictured behind armoured water cannon and armoured cars during a civil rights march in Derry But the Northern Ireland government had banned such ...

A civil rights march in Londonderry 50 years ago "galvanised ... with the support of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA). NICRA had formed in 1967, and drew inspiration from ...