As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions ... created educational ...

Union leaders rally for International Workers Day, highlighting the intersection of civil rights and worker rights. A legacy of solidarity and justice.

The next day, December 21, 1956 ... In his closing words, the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech with Reverend Martin Luther ...

Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement ... his defining years in pictures.

A picture of Emmett's disfigured corpse appeared ... to reflect his African heritage and distanced himself from the civil rights movement's earlier commitment to nonviolence, making common cause ...

became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. “She also directed photographers to take pictures of the body, saying, ‘Let the world see what I’ve seen,’” says Berger ...

The historic Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, a landmark with ties to Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights ...

The division was established in the wake of the 1950s Civil Rights movement. The Justice ... (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) In recent weeks, the department has said it would pursue ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Historic Clayborn Temple in downtown Memphis, a landmark with ties to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights movement, caught fire early Monday morning. Officers ...