Dorie Ann Ladner and Dr. Joyce Ann Ladner
The Civil Rights Movement is sometimes portrayed as the courageous efforts of individual men and women whose bigger-than-life heroism transformed Amer...
Moments of the Movement
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The National Museum of African American History and Culture’s (NMAAHC) Civil Rights History Project, created by an act of Congress in 2009, is a joint effort of the Library of Congress and NMAAHC to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals—many who are unheralded—who participated in the Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s and 1960s.
Gwendolyn Simmons
Nearly 100 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, many of the Southern states in America were segregated and openly oppressive to African American...
Esther Terry
When the Civil Rights Movement began to gain traction throughout the south, much of the credit for its success rightly went to the college students fr...
David and Toko Ackerman
It seems almost natural that a movement with an aim of racial equity would include the young and the old, men and women, Northerners and Southerners, ...
Courtland Cox
The 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom remains the most significant mass gathering in the Civil Rights Movement, and its success was largel...
William Anderson - MOTM
As much as the Civil Rights Movement was driven by the men and women who boldly took steps toward change, it was clear that not much could be done wit...
Robert Hayling - MOTM
Dentist Robert Hayling has been hailed as the "father" of the Saint Augustine, Fla., civil rights movement. The NAACP recruited Hayling in the early 1...
Phil Hutchings, March on Washington - MOTM
The March on Washington was one of the largest organized efforts for human rights in United States history. With its focus on civil and economic right...
Dorie Ann Ladner and Dr. Joyce Ann Ladner, March on Washington - MOTM
1963 was a momentous year for the Civil Rights Movement. Sit-ins, Freedom Rides, and voter-registration campaigns merged to galvanize people for the h...
Phil Hutchings - Moments of the Movement
While working toward similar goals of racial respect and human dignity, the paths various civil rights organizations took to achieve these goals somet...