The truth is, we remember much of the civil rights movement through its very visible male leaders — giants like Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy.

Al Sharpton National Action Network. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton has a 60-plus-year history in the civil rights movement. The popular activist got his start as a youth director for Jesse ...

A survivor of several assassination attempts, he was active in the civil rights movement and spoke at the 1963 march on Washington. Public Domain / Wikimedia Commons 18.

The civil rights movement could not have happened without women. They were grassroots organizers, educators, strategists and writers. They built organizational infrastructure, developed legal ...

Nikole Hannah-Jones and Rashad Robinson warn that viral moments and representation aren’t enough to withstand civil rights ...

Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of a group of leaders of the Black civil rights movement of the 1960s that set the stage for how we work for civil rights today.

In 1961, as a member of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, she wrote a memo arguing that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution outlawed gender discrimination as well as race ...

Some lament that today’s anti-racism movement has no charismatic leaders like the civil rights era did. Such comparisons don’t reflect the real history of the struggle for Black equality in ...

Viola Bradford started working at The Southern Courier when she was 14. On July 26, she will celebrate the newspaper's 60th ...

2. Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928) > Occupations: Politician, social activist > Cause: Women’s suffrage With Pankhurst as its founder and leader, the British suffragette movement disrupted ...

Fannie Lou Hamer, a leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, testifies before the Credentials Committee of the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, N.J., on Aug. 22, 1964 ...