Hosea Williams was Martin Luther King Jr.’s trusted officer of the SCLC during the Civil Rights Movement and later led Georgia’s biggest civil rights march....
Booker T. Washington was a prominent African American educator, author, and leader in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was born into slavery...
Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. The...
The 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution, passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the...
The Selma to Montgomery march was part of a series of civil-rights protests that occurred in 1965 in Alabama, a Southern state with deeply entrenched...
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in 1960 in the wake of student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters across the South and became...
Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent figure in the American civil rights movement. Born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, he dedicated his...