Civil Rights

You can now pay a virtual visit to the U.S. Civil Rights Trail (USCRT), which is a collection of places that played a significant role in the civil rights movement. Get the details here.

Take this World History quiz at Encyclopaedia Britannica to test your knowledge of the American civil rights movement.

On this day in 1955, Rosa Parks took her fateful bus ride in Montgomery, Alabama.

Learn about social activism in New York by exploring the artifacts, photographs, and audio and visual material from different movements of the past and present

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Jordan J Lloyd has added digital colour to black-and-white photos of Dr King and the civil rights movement.

Photographs that capture the Civil Rights movement and The Memphis Blues.

The photographer, who covered protesters across the south, has died at 89. His shot of a policeman assaulting a child won him a World Press Photo award

Civil Rights Movement 1963

Martin Luther King, Jr., Baptist minister and social activist who led the U.S. civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his death in 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States.