Category : Civil Rights

Kathleen Neal Cleaver emerged in the late 1960s as one of the most influential leaders of the Black Panther Party (BPP).  Neal was born in...

George Jackson, born in 1941, became a prominent figure in the struggle for racial justice and prison reform in the United States. His life, marked...

For as long as she can remember, Catherine Burks-Brooks was a “bumper.” Growing up in Birmingham, Ala., she was a child who wasn’t going to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...