Added by: historybeatMedgar Evers
Added by: historybeat4 Girls Killed in Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Bombing
Added by: historybeatFBI Poster for missing civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner
Added by: historybeatVernon Dahmer
1930 US Federal Census record of Medgar Evers.
US Federal Census record for Martin Luther King Jr and his family. The census worker enumerated the first names of Dr King and his father as "Marvin" instead of Martin.
Added by: historybeatA Resolution of the UNC Chapter of the Student Peace Union - 17 March 1963
Added by: historybeatLeaflet, "Wanted: Picketers" - March 1960
Added by: historybeatLetter from 8 UNC School of Law professors to President William Friday - 6 June 1963
Added by: WhistlerOne of three American civil rights activists killed in the infamous Mississippi Burning incident of 21 June 1964.
Added by: WhistlerLeader of the Chicano Civil Rights movement.
Added by: WhistlerBaptist minister who helped lead and organize marches throughout Texas in the 1950s and 1960s.
Added by: WhistlerCo-creator of the Arkansas State Press (a civil rights newspaper) and later President of the Arkansas State Conference of NAACP.
Added by: WhistlerA behind-the-scenes civil rights activist, beginning as early as the 1930s.
Added by: WhistlerA minister and civil rights leader who initially called for and organized the famous March on Washington.
Added by: WhistlerOne of three American civil rights activists killed in the infamous Mississippi Burning incident of 21 June 1964.
Added by: WhistlerA founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and one of eight African Americans elected to the Georgia House of Representatives after Civil Rights legislation was passed.
Added by: WhistlerA women's suffrage and voting rights leader. Together with Alice Paul, formed the National Woman's Party.
Added by: WhistlerFiled lawsuit against the University of Mississippi Law School for segregation, and eventually was assassinated for his activism. (See the "Medgar Evers shot" event on the Civil Rights timeline on this site.)
Added by: WhistlerOne of three American civil rights activists killed in the infamous Mississippi Burning incident of 21 June 1964.
Added by: WhistlerA clergyman, activist, and Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) official.
Added by: WhistlerA Trinidadian-American civil rights activist, "Honorary Prime Minister" of the Black Panther Party.
Added by: WhistlerA leader in CORE and a civil rights activist.
Added by: ixamusIn the 1960s, I, Maxine Walker Giddings, joined the sit in movement at Fisk University in Nashville. On that fateful February day, I sat in with Paul Laprad, an exchange student. He was pulled from his stool; violence erupted, directed at him. We were later arrested.
Added by: ixamusDuring Nashville sit-ins, we marched several times. I am seen marching in the second row wearing glasses and a short, tan coat.
Added by: ixamusAs we were sitting in at McClellan's in Nashville, persons pulled Paul from his seat next to me and began hitting him roughly. I turned aside in shock, but was trained to do nothing. These were the 1960s from Fisk Unviersity.
Added by: sally_liuzzo992This is the marker on Highway 80 in Lowndesboro Alabama where my mom was murdered
Added by: geonewRosa, taken in early 80's at Howard University
Added by: geonewThere was eight attacks on Buffalo area black men by “.22-Caliber Killer” Joseph G. Christopher in the early 1980s. Christopher was a white former Army private. The sign says it all.
Added by: OneiliusThe march for Civil Rights in Washington, D.C., 1963. Originally in: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (225).
Added by: mabuhayp919We were arrested for exercising our rights as citizens in Jonesboro, Louisiana