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...

Fred Hampton was a prominent African American activist and revolutionary leader who was active during the late 1960s. He is best known for his role...

The remains of three civil rights workers whose disappearance on June 21 garnered national attention were found buried in an earthen dam near Philadelphia, Mississippi....

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was created on January 10-11, 1957, when sixty black ministers and civil rights leaders met in Atlanta, Georgia in...

Angela Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author who has made significant contributions to the fields of civil rights, feminism, and prison abolition....

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...

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...