On her 12th birthday, Edith Lee-Payne witnessed history. She also became an icon — but she didn’t know until decades later. As a child, the career civil rights activist unwittingly became the ...

A poster for the U.S. Civil Rights Trail has received ... It was Luckie's second national Silver Addy in three years to feature landmarks that were pivotal to the success of the civil rights movement.

During the 1960s and 70s, protest posters served as rallying cries for peace, as defamations of the federal government, and as tributes to the martyrs of the civil rights movement.

If you think you know the history of the civil rights movement in the United States, “For All The World To See: ... film, magazines, newspapers, toys, pamphlets, posters—was used, ...

The late Rep. John Lewis spoke in 2017 about why he kept telling the civil rights story. ... [of the civil rights movement] ... from a campaign poster from 1968. These two young leaders, ...

Civil rights activist Diane Nash once spoke about the civil rights movement as powered by agape—a love for humanity that drives us to justice. Now, that same spirit calls us forward.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of a group of leaders of the Black civil rights movement of the 1960s that set the stage for how we work for civil rights today.

“Before the Movement” details how ordinary Black Americans used the law to assert their rights in their everyday lives. Here, Black men talk in front of a Mississippi courthouse on a Saturday ...