Walking a picket line, sitting at a lunch counter ... one of the most pivotal organizations of the civil rights movement. “I just thought it was some words. It is, in fact, not just words.

“I take my wooden leg and my 74-year-old body and walk on the picket line with and for my people ... as Fowler described it. As the civil rights movement dawned, Roberts’ Star stood ...

Brian Jones explains how the civil rights movement got a new burst of energy ... but little me. I walked the picket line, and I sat in, and the walls of segregation toppled." ...

The story of the American civil rights movement is told through its powerful music -- the freedom songs that protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in police wagons, and in jail cells ...

WASHINGTON — Jordan Simmons noticed the young Black woman next to him had stopped chanting ... veterans of the 1960s civil rights movement say they’re disappointed another generation must ...

They reflected on their roles in the civil rights movement with ... violence of the monthslong movement. On June 19, more than 500 white people surrounded a picket line of "some 30 singing ...

While celebrating the 50th anniversary of historic legislation at the LBJ Civil Rights Summit in Austin, it seemed appropriate to look back and remember the music that kept the movement going.

Some of Hollywood’s top stars are joining screenwriters on the picket line after the main U.S ... Randolph became American’s leading civil rights organizer during the 1940s and 1950s and ...