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...

  Many African Americans inspired by the , the unjust murder of and the courage of had been...

  The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a protest in which African Americans refused to ride buses...

His mother insisted in displaying his son’s body in a glass topped casket so that the world could...