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 ...

Rev. Ralph Abernathy was a key figure in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and beyond. As the young pastor of First Baptist Church in Montgomery, AL, he and Martin Luther King, Jr. were among ...

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.

The ability of the media to portray brutal repression of the Southern African Americans, and in parallel, speeches by Civil ...

The civil rights legend was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously by President Barack Obama in 2013. As much ...

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

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 ...

Mamie Till-Mobley became a force in the Civil Rights Movement after her 14-year-old son, Emmett Till, was kidnapped, tortured and murdered by white men in Mississippi in 1955.

to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers JACKSON, Miss. -- More than 60 years ...

The longtime civil rights leader and senior pastor of First Institutional Baptist Church in Phoenix was honored June 29 as he ...