Republicans had attracted African American votes since the days of ... the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech with Reverend Martin ...

After the American Civil War ... for equality in the 1950s and 1960s During the 1950s and 1960s, the civil rights movement made great progress. Many people across America, including leaders ...

The government eventually settled a civil rights lawsuit ... of homes to keep African American homeowners in the ghetto. Some 15 years after the Chicago Freedom Movement of 1966, public housing ...

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

The following five stories are a great place to start if you're interested in learning about historic places, people and ...

The struggle over the Equal Rights Amendment started more than a century ago when suffragist Alice Paul first proposed it shortly after the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the ...

Following the American Civil War and the abolition ... The 1954 Brown v Topeka case was an important turning point in the civil rights movement, as it showed that the Supreme Court was prepared ...

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement ... face - and voice - for African American civil rights throughout ...

For the second consecutive time, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson has been nominated for the best history ...