Sit-in Protest
The sit-in protest was a form of nonviolent direct action that became a powerful tactic in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s....
Category : Civil Rights
Donald P. McCullum
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Donald P. McCullum was an influential African American civil rights activist and leader who played a significant role in the Civil Rights Movement of the...
Ivanhoe Donaldson
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Ivanhoe Donaldson was a prominent civil rights activist and political strategist who played a significant role in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and...
The Black Power movement
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The Black Power movement was a social and political movement that emerged in the United States in the mid-1960s and lasted into the 1970s. The...
Vernon Napoleon Johns
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Vernon Napoleon Johns (1892-1965) was an American minister and civil rights activist who played a key role in the early stages of the civil rights...
Khalid Abdul Muhammad
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Khalid Abdul Muhammad called himself a “truth terrorist” and a “knowledge gangsta,” and he was clearly at war with the status quo. A spokesman allied...
White Supremacy
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White supremacy is an ideology that is based on the belief that people of European descent, specifically those who are white, are inherently superior to...
Recy Taylor
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Recy Taylor was a 24-year-old sharecropper who was gang-raped in September 1944 in Abbeville, Alabama. Her attackers were local white teenagers who were never indicted,...