Some changed the world in the past and others are doing it now. Past and present, these 20 civil rights leaders have bent the arc of history with their voices, bodies, brilliance and rejection to ...

Rosa Parks' mugshot remains one of the defining images of the civil rights movement. However, it wasn't taken on the day she ...

While many consider the birth of the civil rights movement to be 1955 ... Some of the NAACP leaders are familiar, including W.E.B. Du Bois and Thurgood Marshall, but Walter White, head of the ...

Pamela Sargent cherishes two distinctive attributes of Fred Reed: his steadfast courage during civil rights marches and the ...

The list of Frederick Douglass's accomplishments is astonishing—respected orator, famous writer, abolitionist, civil rights leader, presidential consultant—even without considering that he was ...

(CNN)-- The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights icon, but for one man, he's something else: the father he barely remembers. King's eldest son, Martin Luther King III, was 11 years old ...

Mattie Jones turned 92 at the end of March. Friends, family, state senators and our U.S. congressman filled the First ...

Johnson. Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the oval office of the White House after the March on Washington, D.C. 1963. Library of Congress ...It ought to be possible ...

The former first vice president and communications chair of the Gloucester County NAACP leaves behind a 55-year legacy of community service and advocacy for justice in Philadelphia and South Jersey.