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 ...

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

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.

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

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

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 ...

The leaders of the Civil Rights Movement carried the baton, and through their organizing, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was signed into law 60 years ago,” Vice President Harris posted on the ...

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.

Out this week, Mr. Ricks’ new book, “Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968,” explores the strategies and tactics of the leaders and foot soldiers in ...

Leaders of the battle for civil rights in New Orleans are spotlighted in 'The Trail They Blazed' at the Historic New Orleans Collection.