Category : Civil Rights

Nannie Helen Burroughs, born in 1879 in Orange, Virginia, to parents who had been enslaved, emerged as a transformative figure in education, religion, social justice,...

George Houser, the son of a Methodist minister, became a pacifist while studying at the Theological Seminary in Chicago. Houser was influenced by Henry David...

Walter Francis White was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on 1st July 1893. His father was a postman and his mother a schoolteacher. Atlanta had Jim...

Joan Trumpauer Mulholland might seem like an unlikely civil rights hero: a white teenage girl with a conservative upbringing in Arlington, Virginia, during the Jim Crow era...

A small group of students and faculty from Tougaloo College, a private and historically black institution in Jackson, drove downtown and sat at the lunch...

On May 2, 1963, more than one thousand students skipped classes and gathered at Sixth Street Baptist Church to march to downtown Birmingham, Alabama. As...

Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray was born in Baltimore on 20th November 1910. Her mother, Agnes Murray died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1914. Her father,...

The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), founded in 1942, became one of the leading activist organizations in the early years of the American civil rights...

The Freedom Rides were a series of civil rights protests that took place in the United States during the 1960s. The rides were organized to...