And we shall overcome." In his closing words, the president invoked a rallying cry of the civil rights movement. An SCLC staffer watching the speech with Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

After the American Civil War, many southern states retained racist rules and systems. The 1896 Supreme Court ruling allowing segregation was not successfully challenged until 1954. The fight for ...

The 1954 Brown v Topeka case was an important turning point in the civil rights movement, as it showed that the Supreme Court was prepared to take action to end segregation in the USA. In 1865 ...

His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement. A new telling of the story of the 1964 murders of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County, Mississippi—carried out by the Klan and ...

Visitors of the civil rights museum are greeted with a timeline of African American ... the events of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement from World War II through 1975. The museum also embraces ...

MCRM displays a timeline of African American history in Mississippi along with interactive exhibits that chronicle the events of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Movement from World War II through 1975.

19.Visitors of the Civil Rights Museum are greeted with a timeline of African American history in Mississippi before moving to interactive exhibits that chronicle the events of the Mississippi Civil ...