And we shall overcome." In his closing words, the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr ...

According to the order, information regarding JFK's assassination was originally ... Luther King Jr. is famous for his work ...

What role did white campaigners and politicians have in the Civil Rights Movement? Discuss different perspectives on historic events and the motivation behind them.

Civil rights campaigns 1945-1965 Notable events in the civil rights movement in the 1950s were the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Little Rock. The 1960s saw Sit Ins, the Freedom Rides and protests in ...

On May 2, 1963, roughly 1,000 Birmingham students left their classrooms and took to the streets, taking on the fight for civil rights in place of their parents in what would later be known as the ...