Meet 21 civil rights activists—past and present—whose bold leadership reshaped history and continues to inspire justice movements today.

First , there was “bloody Sunday” and “turnaround Tuesday,” then there was a rally in Boston in 1965 over housing ...

Johnson after the Selma-to-Montgomery march. “I had clearly shown ... Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award from the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. The historical marker is in front of the ...

Today, I think people of this generation just march because they were told ... Chairwoman of the Birmingham Civil Rights Activist Committee “Foot Soldiers Headquarters” downtown.

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in ...

Man, it was difficult to narrow this list down. There were a thousand musicians who stepped up and made statements musically ...