Civil Rights Movement

Unseen. Unforgotten

These Birmingham News photographs of the civil rights movement have not been seen by the public. Until now...... Read more

Powerful Days in Black and White

Kodak presents "Powerful Days in Black and White" of the civil rights movement...... Read more

Bayard Rustin and the Rise and Decline of the Black Protest Movement

"THERE HAS BEEN . . . A NEGRO REVOLT in every decade of this century," Lerone Bennett wrote in 1963. "Each revolt failed, only to emerge in the next decade on a higher level of development."1 If there is a single person who served as the nexus between these decennial revolts, it was Bayard Rustin. This is one of the important lessons to be drawn from Jervis Anderson's recent biography: Bayard Rustin: Troubles I've Seen.2 Indeed, if Anderson had his politics right, the subtitle would have read: Troubles I've Caused...... Read more

Voices of Civil Rights

AARP, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR), and the Library of Congress have teamed up to collect and preserve personal accounts of America's struggle to fulfill the promise of equality for all. We invite you to explore this site, a tribute to those who were a part of the civil rights experience and to the continuing quest for equality...... Read more

Civil Rights Movement Veterans

This website is of, by, and for Veterans of the Southern Freedom Movement during the years 1951-1968. It is where we tell it like it was, the way we lived it...... Read more