The 1965 Civil Rights March That Changed Everything
road warriorsWith the lethal memory of “bloody Sunday” fresh in their minds, 3,600 marchers set out from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery on March 21, 1965.
The Deep South Couple Working 24/7 for Social Justice
CHANGEMAKERSHe’s the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, and she’s a department head at Jackson State. They raise their children the way they were raised: See a problem, find a remedy.
Two Murders That Ignited Passage of the Voting Rights Act
TIPPING POINTJimmie Lee Jackson and James Reeb were civil rights protesters who were brutally murdered in Alabama in 1965. They did not die in vain.
The Sit-Ins That Desegregated Nashville’s Lunch Counters
EXCERPTTheir opponents bombed their lawyer’s house and extinguished cigarettes on their skin, but nonviolent protest prevailed in an often overlooked chapter of the Civil Rights story.