The success of the protests led the boycott leaders to ... In his closing words, the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech with ...

When the bank’s response was that there were not “four Blacks in the city” fit for such jobs, CORE launched a protest that became the longest and most contentious in St. Louis civil rights ...

lonely walk into a significant march for the civil rights movement. As others took up the "March Against Fear," organizers debated the inclusion of whites in the protest and the carrying of ...

Colleges have beefed up safety measures since last spring’s intense protests. A call for a national “day of action” on Thursday may test the new rules.

In the days leading up to the Democratic National Convention, many party leaders shared a fear: Would protests against ... drawing an analogy to the Civil Rights Movement. "What you need is ...

In 1963, civil rights leaders Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. organized nonviolent protests in the city to take a stand ... interpret this critical chapter in the civil rights ...

Folk music also played an influential role in environmental political efforts and anti-war protests during the United States' engagement in Vietnam. Smithsonian Folkways Recordings playlists, Sounds ...

James Lawson, the man who inspired a generation of nonviolent activists in the earliest days of the Civil Rights Movement and ...

Protests and boycotts on buses and other forms of public transport played a significant role in the civil rights movement, with many Black Americans taking a stand against the discrimination they ...

Those focused more on America’s growing Civil Rights Movement than football ... who by then had successfully led a protest to desegregate the lunch counter at Woolworths on Kirk Avenue downtown.

The 1954 Brown v Topeka case was an important turning point in the civil rights movement, as it showed ... political lobbying and protests. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored ...