I wanted so badly to be a part of the Civil Rights Movement." The Foot Soldiers Breakfast is held ... She recalled the day after the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham.

Fifteen Capital Region veterans of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s ... Those people, called 'foot soldiers' of the movement, working to advance social justice. Not everybody in the movement ...

The city paid tribute Friday to a community activist and foot soldier in Tuscaloosa's civil rights movement ... family of Maxie Thomas gathered for a street renaming ceremony in honor of Thomas.

At just 16 years old, Mrs. Kelsey became a foot soldier in ... and tragic 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in 1963, shared their experiences on the “Voice of The Civil Rights” panel hosted ...

SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The city of Los Angeles honored civil-rights icon Rev. James Lawson with a new street named in his honor. The 95-year-old was a pillar of the 1960s civil-rights ...

"Many threats have been made about the possibilities of what will happen to anyone who would participate in that movement ...

James Bevel, the civil ... soldiers); valuable as his focus prompts Mr Ricks to look past protests and speeches to the rigour, patience and vision that made them succeed. “The civil-rights ...

ELLIOTT: Sure. 16th Street Baptist Church was an important place during the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement in 1963. This was where all those young Civil Rights marchers would gather and they ...

2023 marks the 60th anniversary of the Birmingham Campaign, a series of protests and demonstrations that have since been hailed as a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement. In the years since ...

Cecil Bassett Moore was a Black American activist, lawyer and politician during the civil rights movement who operated ... challenged for the seat by John Street, Moore intended to face him ...