Preaching a message of nonviolent resistance, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was the leading voice of the American civil rights movement ... his defining years in pictures.

became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. “She also directed photographers to take pictures of the body, saying, ‘Let the world see what I’ve seen,’” says Berger ...

The late civil rights movement activist was born on Feb. 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Ala. A seamstress by trade, Parks got nationwide attention in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white man on ...

B irmingham, Ala. — An array of photos covering the civil rights movement in Alabama by famed Birmingham News photographer Spider Martin will be on display for the next few weeks at Birmingham ...

His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...

An iconic North Carolina building that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement is now officially ... decades prior — was captured in photos and gained national attention.