The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place on August 28, 1963 in front of the Lincoln...

In the 1960s Birmingham, Alabama was the largest industrial city in the South and according to the...

In 1961 Albany, Georgia, was a small town of 56,000 people where 40% were African American. In...

  James Meredith was born in Mississippi on June 23, 1933. He served in the Air Force from...

  In March 1961 the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) decided to test the Boynton v. Virginia...