From grassroots organisers to Martin Luther King, leaders framed their struggle in global terms, writes Keisha N. Blain ...

Most Americans are familiar with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s — an era in which peaceful protests led by the Rev.

Participants in Birmingham's 1963 Children's Crusade are speaking out about the U.S. Supreme Court's reinterpretation of the ...

Danny Lyon was a student at the University of Chicago in the summer of 1962, when he photographed a sit-in on the campus. The sit-in was organized by current U.S. Senator and fellow University of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Music played a key role in the civil rights movement. People marched to freedom songs while artists from Sam Cooke to Bob Dylan ...

A generation of Black Americans across the South fought in courtrooms and in the streets during the Civil Rights Movement to ...

In the nearly six decades since the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement has reinvented itself time and again, moving from a fight to eliminate Jim Crow to more contested ...

The Civil Rights movement used music extensively, with songs like "People Get Ready" serving as anthems. Many protest songs from the 1960s remain relevant and are still sung at demonstrations today.