The civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s was an important period of political action. It was a movement led by people from all over the country, all fighting racism in local ways ...

Morris had an expansive vision of freedom that went beyond his antislavery work. Like the activists leading the U.S. civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s, Morris’s activism was multifaceted.

Aretha Franklin grew up in 1950s Detroit, surrounded from childhood by the now-famous faces of the civil rights movement. Her songs would become their anthems. Her Baptist minister father was the ...

The same issues would re-emerge decades later, in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Eric Foner: In the language of the nineteenth century, there are various degrees of equality.

An African American woman's voice, a child of Southwest Georgia, a voice raised in song, born in the struggle against racism in America during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s ...

The 1950s marked a major change for Phoenix. The decade was marked by large growth, end of segregation in schools and more ...

Prior to his arrest, Rustin visited Japanese Americans imprisoned in a California internment camp and later became tied to King and the civil rights movement in the 1950s. He helped integrate labor ...

Many of the songs in the 1950s hinted at the simmering racial tension that would later usher in the Civil Rights Movement in ...