1. Martin Luther King Jr. Born in 1929 in Atlanta, Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and theologian who became the moral compass of the Civil Rights Movement. His ideology was rooted ...

Following in her footsteps were the women who made a difference in our city by taking the lead during the Civil Rights Movement ... rights with marches, sit-ins, voter registration drives ...

Director Chris Jackson walks through a scene with the cast during a rehearsal ... lunch counter sit-ins of 1960. The effort to carve out the texture of the Civil Rights Movement feels prescient ...

Sixty-five years ago, Joseph McNeil and three fellow college students from North Carolina A&T took a stand against segregation by simply sitting ... moment in the civil rights movement.

In this digital age of disinformation, it’s easy for simple facts about the Civil Rights Movement to get misconstrued. During this era, which rose to prominence in the 1950s, Black folks worked ...

TODAY, GREENSBORO IS MARKING THE 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIT INS THAT SPARKED A NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS ... of this movement. Those are people who helped in other, unconventional ways during the ...

Often, they are taken away or arrested instead. During the Civil Rights Movement, sit-ins often took place in segregated areas. Black Americans sitting in “White only” areas helped change racist ...

The civil rights movement shows us that successful movements can strategically embrace rather than reject their radical wing. As a form of civil disobedience, sit-ins were initially considered ...

As I woke on the day after Donald Trump's election back to the White House, I realized a painful truth—The country I love doesn't love me back. I sought a vision of a better country that cares ...

EYEWITNESS EXPLORES HOW MEDIA SERVED AS A POWERFUL TOOL DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT AND COMMEMORATES THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE LANDMARK CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1964, HIGHLIGHTING THE PIVOTAL ...

The Howard sit-ins didn’t immediately lead to an end to racial segregation in the nation’s Capital, but they were later emulated by Black activists across during the civil rights movement.