The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young Black girls, fire hoses and dogs were used against peaceful protesters, ...

Alabama civil rights survivor, Sarah Collins Rudolph, spoke to Monrovia Elementary School students, recounting her experiences from one of the darkest chapters of the Civil Rights Movement.

Months before four little girls were killed in a Birmingham, Ala., church bombing that helped turn the tide of the civil rights movement in 1963, their friends and classmates bravely took to the ...

Even today, it can be difficult to talk about what happened and why it happened. In Alabama, educators and other people are using this anniversary to try to make civil rights relevant to a younger ...

The year 1963 was a watershed moment for civil rights, with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers leading the movement. But rollbacks of civil rights and racial justice ideals abound in ...

A rumor circulating online accurately described an event in the Civil Rights Movement protests on May 4, 1963, in Birmingham, Alabama, in which fire hoses being used on demonstrators mysteriously went ...

In the summer of 1963, as racial tensions reached a crescendo across America, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. made a series of ...

Charlton Heston, Sidney Poitier, Burt Lancaster and Lena Horne were among the stars who appeared for MLK and civil rights.

Music was the heartbeat of the Civil Rights era. It provided a powerful voice for change by transforming spirituals and folk ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Sughnen Yongo is a Midwest writer covering Black women, pop culture. Apr 10, 2025, 12:05pm EDT Martin Luther King waves to ...

Find part 2 of our conversation with Peniel Joseph here. The year 1963 was a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing that killed four young Black girls, ...