American civil rights movement
The Civil Rights Movement did not suddenly appear out of nowhere in the twentieth century. Efforts to improve the quality of life for African Americans...
Reverend James M. Lawson, Jr
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Rev. James Lawson is one of the most influential figures in the history of the civil rights movement in the United States. He is widely...
Nell Braxton Gibson
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The night terrors started early in life. Nell Braxton Gibson remembers holding her mother’s hands and rushing through the streets, her father, weighed down by...
Matthew Walker Jr
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Matthew Walker Jr. was a key figure in the civil rights movement, whose actions and sacrifices contributed to the lasting change in American society. Born...
Diane Judith
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Civil rights activist Diane Judith Nash was born on May 15, 1938, in Chicago, Illinois to Leon Nash and Dorothy Bolton Nash. Nash grew up...
Luvaghn Brown
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If you were black in Jackson, Miss., during the ’50s, there was no need to look for violence; it found you. And Luvaghn Brown was...
Catherine Burks-Brooks
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Catherine Burks-Brooks (October 8, 1939 – July 3, 2023) was a fearless American civil rights activist, educator, social worker, entrepreneur, and newspaper editor whose unyielding...
Jo Ann Robinson
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Jo Ann Robinson organized a city bus boycott by African Americans in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 that changed the course of civil rights in America....
Dion Diamond
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Dion Diamond was one of a small interracial group that broke Jim Crow’s back in the Washington, DC suburbs in 1960. The sit-in movement in...
Charles Hamilton Houston
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A Champion for Racial Equality Charles Hamilton Houston was a trailblazing figure in the fight for civil rights in the United States. Born in 1895...